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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

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2014 | World

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...

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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

by Obaid Al-Suhaymi | Sep 23, 2014 | Middle East

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...

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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

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2014 | Middle East

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...

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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)

Former regime officials facilitated Houthi takeover of Sana’a: sources

by Arafat Madabish | Sep 23, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Military and security commanders loyal to Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have “colluded” with Houthi rebels, facilitating their full takeover of state buildings in the capital Sana’a, sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday....

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Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar of China’s Uighur minority, at his home in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese court jails Uighur scholar for life for separatism

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2014 | World

Beijing, Reuters—A Chinese court on Tuesday jailed for life the country’s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, a sentence that rights advocates said sent a clear signal that the government is determined to suppress dissent. Economics...