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Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, attend the 131th meeting of the council’s, on June 2, 2014 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)

Qatar agrees to stop offering citizenship to GCC nationals: official

by Fahd Al-Zayabi | Aug 15, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Doha has said it will no longer offer Qatari citizenship to citizens of other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in a bid to contain a diplomatic row with neighbor states who accuse it of threatening their national security. In comments to...

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Iraq’s prime minister of eight years, Nuri Al-Maliki, announces he is relinquishing his post to Haider Al-Abadi (2nd L) in Baghdad on August 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government)

Iraq’s Maliki finally steps aside, paving way for new government

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 15, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—Nuri Al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash a Sunni Islamist insurgency that threatens Baghdad. Maliki...

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Ylva van den Berg (R-L), longtime partner of AP video journalist Simone Camilli, his mother Maria Daniela Vigna and his father Pier Luigi Camilli wait for the start of the funeral service, at the Pitigliano Cathedral, Italy, on 15 August, 2014. (EPA/Riccardo de Luca/POOL)

Hundreds mourn AP video journalist killed in Gaza

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 15, 2014 | Media

Pitigliano, (Italy), AP–Several hundred mourners packed the ornate cathedral of this hilltop Tuscan town on Friday to remember Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli as a committed storyteller who had found personal and professional contentment in the Middle...

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin looks on as he chairs a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 7, 2014. (AFP Photo/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexey Druzhinin)

Opinion: Putin, Russia and the Western Dilemma

by Amir Taheri | Aug 15, 2014 | Opinion

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s photo can be seen regularly on the cover of Western news magazines, and international television channels offer constant footage on various aspects of his checkered career. As the latest bête-noire of Western political and...

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Convoy of Russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid wait 17 miles from the Ukrainian border in the Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, on August 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian aid convoy checked; military vehicles mass near Ukraine

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 15, 2014 | World

Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Russia), Reuters—Dozens of heavy Russian military vehicles massed on Friday near the border with Ukraine, while Ukrainian border guards crossed the frontier to inspect a huge Russian aid convoy. Kiev has said the humanitarian aid might be used as...