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File photo of the City Mall in Amman, Jordan. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Jordanian shopkeepers brace for Eid spending spree

by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Jul 25, 2014 | Business

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—Jordanian business owners are ready to meet shoppers’ expectations during the upcoming Eid Al-Fitr festival, when Muslims traditionally wear new clothes and exchange gifts, even though people seem worried by the financial demands of Eid and the...

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epa04328719 A destroyed Al qsa martyer’s mosque after an Israeli air strikes in Gaza during a military operation in the east of Gaza City, 24 July 2014. At least 23 Palestinians were killed before dawn 24 July 2014 on the 17th day of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip amid reports that both sides […]

Opinion: From Gaza to Mosul, the Killing Continues

by Bakir Oweida | Jul 25, 2014 | Opinion

Nothing justifies the tanks of the Israeli “Defense” Force shelling thirty Palestinian families, none of whom had any chance of taking shelter or running away. This happened in the town of Khuzaha, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, just days after the streets of the...

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Iraqi Christians attend Sunday mass at the Virgin Mary Chaldean church (Church of Our Lady of Sacred Heart) in the Karrada neighborhood of the capital Baghdad on July 20, 2014. (AFP/Sabah Arar)

Mosul’s Christian refugees pledge never to return

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Following reports that no Christians remain in Iraq’s second city after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) gave Mosul’s Christian community a deadline to either leave or face execution, Iraqi Christian refugees have said they were...

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Fuad Masoum, Iraq’s newly elected president, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, on July 24, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq picks president, but no movement on prime minister

by Hamza Mustafa | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—It was one step forward and two steps back for Iraq on Thursday as parliament successfully elected a new president, but appeared no closer to choosing a prime minister or forming a new government. Lawmakers elected veteran Kurdish politician...

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk addresses the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, 24 July 2014. (EPA)

Stalled Ukraine parliament says yet to receive PM’s resignation

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2014 | World

Kiev, Reuters—Ukraine’s parliament said on Friday it had yet to receive a resignation letter from Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk so could not vote on whether to accept it, stalling work at the heart of government. Yatseniuk, a key interlocutor of the West...