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Left to right: Late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (R) walks with his cousin Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam, Gaddaf Al-Dam, Muammar Gaddafi (C) walks with former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (R) in Cairo, Egypt, in the early 1970s. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott (L) speaks at a joint press conference with Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin in Sydney on September 19, 2014. (AFP Photo/Saeed Khan)
Australian counter-terror officer shoots man dead
Canberra, AP—A man was shot dead and two counter-terrorism police were stabbed in a confrontation in Australia’s second largest city on Tuesday, police said. It was not immediately clear whether the violence was related to a recent call from the Islamic State of...Caption:
A metal sculpture of a ballet box holding the Bahraini flag, meant to encourage people to vote in the 2014 parliamentary and municipal elections, is seen on a side road in the affluent neighborhood of Saar north of Manama, Bahrain, 23 September 2014. (EPA/MAZEN MAHDI)
Bahrain reduces governorates to four, amends election law
Manama, Asharq Al-Awsat—Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued a royal decree on Monday reducing the number of governorates in the island kingdom, in a step aimed at achieving electoral balance ahead of the parliamentary and municipal elections scheduled for...Caption:
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during an annual military parade marking the 34th anniversary of outset of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, September 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
UK premier to meet Rouhani in New York
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—British Prime Minister David Cameron is to meet Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani at the UN in New York this week in a sign of improving relations between the two countries and growing mutual fears of the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and...Caption:
Shi’ite Houthi rebels chant slogans as they ride in a pickup truck at the army’s First Armored Division compound after taking it over, in Sana’a, Yemen, on Monday, September 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)