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A general view of the 142nd Arab League foreign ministers’ meeting at the League’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on September 7, 2014. (EPA/Khaled Elfiqi)
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry (not seen) during a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 23, 2014.(AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)
Kurds to hold final meeting on joining new Iraqi government
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat/Reuters—Iraq’s Kurdish political bloc is heading back to Iraqi Kurdistan for a final meeting on Monday to decide whether to participate in the next national government, the Kurds’ top negotiator Hoshyar Zebari told Reuters....Caption:
Followers of the Shi’ite Houthi movement flee as riot police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse them along a main road leading to the airport in Sana’a, Yemen, on September 7, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Yemeni government attempts to clear Houthi protest camps
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—One protester was killed and 40 were injured when clashes erupted between Yemeni security forces and Houthi protesters in the Yemeni capital on Sunday. The clashes occurred when government forces attempted to clear protestors off the road to...Caption:
A medical worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gestures beside a woman inside the high-risk area of the Elwa hospital runned by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), where are being treated Ebola patients, on September 7, 2014 in Monrovia. (AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET)
Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back
Conakry, AP—Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced,...Caption:
French Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 3, 2014, after a weekly cabinet meeting. (AFP PHOTO/ ALAIN JOCARD)