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British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives for a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (not pictured) on the sidelines of the Climate Summit 2014 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA, on September 23, 2014. (EPA/Peter Foley)

Britain, Belgium and Netherlands to debate joining airstrikes on Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The British, Dutch and Belgian parliaments are to consider proposals to join the US-led coalition’s airstrikes on Iraq, according to reports. Sources in the British prime minister’s office said the UK’s parliament would be recalled from its...

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Security guard the federal courthouse in Manhattan during the sentencing of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former Al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith on September 23, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / YANA PASKOVA)

Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law sentenced to life in US prison

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East

New York, Reuters—A seemingly unrepentant Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges. A Manhattan federal jury in March found the Kuwaiti-born 48-year-old...

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Supporters of the Shi’ite Houthi movement wave Yemeni flags as they celebrate in Sana’a, Yemen, on September 23, 2014. (EPA/Wadia Mohammed)

Hadi brands Houthi takeover of Sana’a as “foreign plot”

by Arafat Madabish | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi said in a meeting at the presidential palace on Tuesday that the Houthi takeover of Sana’a came as a result of “a foreign and internal plot,” warning that the current crisis could plunge the country into...

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A US Navy jets lands on the USS George H.W. Bush after conducting strike missions against ISIS on September 23, 2014 (AFP PHOTO/NAVY MEDIA CONTENT SERVICES/HO/ Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian Stephens)

Airstrikes in Syria hit ISIS at Iraqi border

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut and London, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—US-led forces carried out at least 13 airstrikes in Syria close to the Iraqi border on Wednesday, a second day of targeting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants who have seized land on both sides of the frontier,...

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Obama speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. (Reuters)

Obama urges world to follow US lead on climate

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2014 | World

United Nations, AP—World leaders on Tuesday were in agreement at a United Nations summit as to how seriously they took global warming . US President Barack Obama pressed other countries to follow the United States’ lead on the issue, even as the summit revealed...