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The Governor of Medina province, Prince Faisal Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, launches the Dar Al-Hijrah project on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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A Royal Australian Air Force Boeing C-17 transporting some of the remains of the victims of the crashed Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane ascends after taking off at Kharkiv airport on July 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)
Planes with Malaysia Airlines bodies leave Ukraine
Kharkiv, AP—Two military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster departed for the Netherlands Thursday, while Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a UN team to secure the crash scene which has been controlled by...Caption:
A Saudi trader monitors stocks at the Saudi stock market in Riyadh on April 28, 2013. (Reuters/Faisal Al-Nasser)
Foreign investors consulting Saudi wealth management funds on Kingdom’s stock market: sources
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Global financial institutions are consulting Saudi wealth management funds on the acquisition of potentially lucrative stocks listed on the Kingdom’s Tadawul stock exchange, sources have told Asharq Al-Awsat, following the decision on Tuesday...Caption:
A picture made available on July 20, 2014 shows an Egyptian soldier guarding the site of an attack on a checkpoint which left 21 soldiers dead, 600 km south-west of Cairo towards the Libyan border. (EPA)
“Unprecedented” amounts of arms being smuggled into Egypt from Libya: source
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Unprecedented amounts of weapons and ammunition are being smuggled into Egypt from Libya, a senior Egyptian military official said just days after suspected smugglers killed 21 Egyptian military border guards on the Egyptian–Libyan border. The...Caption:
A destroyed Civil Defense ambulance is seen on a street following an Israeli military offensive on the Shejaia neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border on July 20, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)