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Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi gives a phone call upon arrival at a IAEA Board of Governors’ meeting at the International Center in Vienna on September 17, 2014
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A community activist (L) helps Promise Cooper, 16, and her brother Emmanuel Junior, 11, make a disinfectant solution. The siblings were orphaned after their parents died of the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
US military aircraft arrive in Liberia
Monrovia, AP—Presidents of West African countries ravaged by Ebola pleaded for aid at the World Bank on Thursday as the US military ramped up its efforts in Liberia, the hardest-hit country. “Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma...Caption:
A general view of Yemeni gunmen inspecting the site of a deadly suicide bomb took place at Tahrir Square in Sana’a, Yemen, on October 9, 2014. (EPA/YAHYA ARHAB)
Yemen: Hadi PM candidate quits following Houthi rejection
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Yemeni president’s favored candidate for prime minister, Ahmed Bin Mubarak, rejected his nomination on Wednesday, following fierce opposition from Houthi rebels controlling large parts of the capital Sana’a. In a letter submitted to...Caption:
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde gives opening remarks before a session addressing inclusive growth during the World Bank and IMF annual meetings in Washington, DC, USA, on October 8, 2014. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
MENA region to witness 4.2 percent growth in 2015: World Bank
Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat—Economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is projected to average 4.2 percent in 2015, up from 3.5 percent this year, the World Bank said in a report published on Wednesday, as representatives from across the globe...Caption:
A man looks at a vehicle belonging to the Iraqi security forces in the Anbar province town of Hit on October 6, 2014. (Reuters)