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Smoke billows from the site of clashes on the road leading to the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on July 20, 2014.
(AFP Photo/Mahmud Turkia)
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Tunisian military band members perform during a symbolic funeral for soldiers killed by terrorists in the Chaambi Mountains earlier in the week, at the independence martyrs’ quarter in the Sejoumi cemetery in the capital Tunis on July 18, 2014. (AFP Photo/Fethi Belaid)
Tunisia arrests 63 terror suspects, tightens security around militant hideouts
Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tunisian security forces have arrested 63 terror suspects in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack which left over a dozen army soldiers dead, an official spokesman said on Saturday. In a statement, the Ministry of Interior said it had...Caption:
A Palestinian man carries a boy, who medics said was wounded during heavy Israeli shelling at the Shejaia district, at a hospital in Gaza on July 20, 2014. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)
At least 40 dead in Israeli attack on Gaza district: hospital
Gaza, Reuters—At least 40 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled toward a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. The mass casualties in the...Caption:
Joko Widodo, left, and Prabowo Subianto. (AP)
Indonesia’s democracy faces test as tally comes in
Jakarta, AP—After an ugly presidential election campaign, Indonesia is set to declare the winner on Tuesday—but that may not settle a simmering dispute between the two candidates, both of whom claim victory. Unofficial counts by eight polling agencies of the July 9...Caption:
A vendor looks on as he sells dates at a market in Utaiqah neighborhood, south of Riyadh, on June 26, 2014.(REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser)