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In this Wednesday July 16, 2014 photo, and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria’s President Bashar Assad is sworn for his third, seven-year term, in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/SANA)
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A general view of Algiers with the Kasbah in the background taken on June 5, 2014. AFP/Getty Images
Algerian artist Kader Attia tackles conflicted identities in his latest exhibition
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A precondition for visiting the Contre Nature exhibition featuring work by Algerian artist Kader Attia is that you must don appropriate footwear. At the entrance of the exhibition held in the Beirut Art Center the artist has placed scrap metal,...Caption:
Head of the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC), Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani (C) gestures during the start of the sorting of presidential ballot papers for the audit and recounting at the counting center at a warehouse in Kabul on July 17, 2014. (AFP/Wakil Khosar)
Opinion: A Way Out of Afghanistan’s Presidential Impasse
By refusing to ride the tiger of demagoguery, Afghan presidential rivals Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah have demonstrated a welcome degree of statesmanship. Rather than pushing their country towards conflict—perhaps even civil war—the two men have agreed to sort...Caption:
The site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash is seen at the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. (REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev)
Official: Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine
Kiev, AP—A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down on Thursday over a town in the east of the country, and Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights over Ukrainian airspace. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser...Caption:
Graduate Shaheen Qasamani explains her art work to the Prince of Wales.
(Asharq Al-Awsat)