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New Iraqi President Fouad Massoum meets with Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations envoy to Iraq, at the Presidential Office in Baghdad, Sunday, July 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir gestures as he gives an address at the opening of the eighth session of Parliament in Khartoum on October 28, 2013.(Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
Opinion: Sudanese Crises and Brotherhood Stunts
Sudan’s recently escalating problems, both domestic and foreign, are due to its regime’s foreign policy stunts. One example of these is the fanfare over Sudan’s decision last month to shut down the Iranian cultural center and its branches across the country and the...Caption:
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)
Putin says considering retaliation against “strange” Western sanctions
Dushanbe, Reuters—President Vladimir Putin said on Friday new Western sanctions against Russia looked “a bit strange” given his backing of peace efforts in eastern Ukraine, and warned he was considering taking fresh retaliation. The European Union and the...Caption:
Police troopers stand on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) at a checkpoint in Sana’a. (Reuters Photos)
Sana’a-Houthi talks “unresolved”: source
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Talks are under way between the Yemeni government and Houthi militia as the army considers military action to stop the expansion of rebels into the capital Sana’a, a senior government source told Asharq Al-Awsat. Underlying the failure to...Caption:
Participants of the Jeddah Conference stand together during a photo at the King Abdulaziz International Airports Royal Terminal on September 11, 2014 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AFP Photo/Brenda N Smialowski)