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Honor guards carry a coffin of one of the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine for loading on to a transport plane heading to the Netherlands at Kharkiv airport July 23, 2014. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

Bodies of Malaysia jet victims to leave Ukraine

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 23, 2014 | World

Kharkiv, AP—Ukraine prepared a departure ceremony for the bodies of Malaysia Airlines passengers and crew who became victims of fighting raging far below them on the plains of eastern Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Wednesday’s ceremony...

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TOPSHOTS A Palestinian boy carries a mattress and a cusion he recovered from his family’s damaged apartment as he walks amid debris on a deserted street in the centre of Gaza City on July 22, 2014. A series of Israeli air strikes early in the morning killed seven people in Gaza, including five members of […]

Opinion: Israel’s Media Pressure Tactics

by Diana Moukalled | Jul 23, 2014 | Opinion

Not long after NBC presenter Ayman Mohyeldin ended his emotive live report about the tragic killing of four Palestinian children as they were playing football on Gaza beach, the NBC hierarchy ordered him home. Mohyeldin himself had kicked the ball around with the four...

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Abbas Qatish. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Mesaharati, Still Part of Sidon’s Ramadan Tradition

by Vivian Haddad | Jul 23, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Late at night, during the holy month of Ramadan, a mesaharati makes his way through the alleyways of Sidon in Lebanon. He bangs his drum, recites poetry, and calls out to the people to wake them for their pre-dawn suhoor meal, their final...

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Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, as Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of locations along the coastal area and diplomatic efforts intensified to end the two-week war. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Opinion: Gaza needs a permanent solution

by Ali Ibrahim | Jul 23, 2014 | Opinion

It almost seems like the inescapable destiny of the Gazan people is that every two years a war breaks out in their country, with airstrikes and an Israeli ground offensive that takes a heavy toll on civilians. They must repeatedly suffer material losses and destroyed...

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An Iraqi man prays at the Al-Noori Al-Kabeer mosque, next to flag used by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in Mosul city, northern Iraq, on July 9, 2014. (EPA)

Remaining Mosul Christians forced to convert to Islam: Iraqi official

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 23, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The few remaining Christian families in the Iraqi city of Mosul have been told to ‘convert or die’ by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants following the end of a controversial deadline to flee the city. The Al-Qaeda...