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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in the context of nuclear talks with Iran, in Vienna, Austria, on 13 July 2014. (EPA/Hans Punz)

Iran and Germany: A 100-year-Old Love Affair

by Amir Taheri | Jul 19, 2014 | Book Reviews

As the deadline for P5+1 group nuclear negotiations with Iran is extended by 4-months until November, commentators assume that the four Western powers involved, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, are united in their determination to curtail Iranian...

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Smoke billows from the Gaza Strip following an Israeli air strike on July 16, 2014 soon after Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza, killing four children on a beach in an apparent naval salvo. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

NBC sends reporter back to Gaza after sudden exit

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 19, 2014 | Media

New York, AP—NBC said Friday it was sending Middle East correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin back to the Gaza strip this weekend after he left the region for unexplained reasons following his eyewitness report on the killing of four Palestinian boys on a beach this week. The...

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton (L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speak during a press conference after their talks between the P5+1 and Iran, in Vienna, Austria, on July 19, 2014.
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Iran, P5+1 agree nuclear talks extension

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 19, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran and the P5+1 world powers have agreed to extend negotiations to reach a final comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program by four months, until November 24. The interim agreement reached last November, which was set to expire on July...

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A Palestinian child runs across debris from a destroyed house, following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, on July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israeli tanks dig in at Gaza frontier as Palestinian toll tops 300

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 19, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza and Jerusalem, Reuters—Israeli soldiers in tanks and bulldozers dug in across a mile-wide strip of eastern Gaza on Saturday as Palestinian officials said military strikes had pushed the mostly civilian death toll past 300. The military said its engineers were...

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Members of the White Army, a South Sudanese anti-government militia, attend a rally in Nasir on April 14, 2014.
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South Sudan army says kills over 60 soldiers loyal to rebel leader

by Mustafa Sirri | Jul 19, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—South Sudan’s army has said that more than 60 soldiers loyal to rebel leader and former Vice-President Riek Machar have been killed. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, the spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), Philip Aguer,...