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Israeli soldiers walk near a Merkava tank at an army deployment near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip on July 24, 2014. US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke today to his counterparts in Qatar and Turkey, which support the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as he pressed for a Gaza ceasefire. AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ

Opinion: Gaza and the Curse of Half-Finished Wars

by Amir Taheri | Jul 25, 2014 | Opinion

It took the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon two weeks to come out with a call for a ceasefire in Gaza. A diplomatic gesture of the lowest order, the Secretary-General’s meek move reflected the unwillingness, not to say inability, of the international...

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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)

Dar Al-Hijrah launches in Medina

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 24, 2014 | Business

Medina, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Governor of Medina province, Prince Faisal Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, launched on Tuesday the Dar Al-Hijrah project, owned by the Kingdom’s Public Investments Fund and one of a wide range of development projects planned for the area...

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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

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 24, 2014 | World

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...

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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

by Shuja Al-Baqmi | Jul 24, 2014 | Business

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...

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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

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jul 24, 2014 | Middle East

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...