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Afghan policemen stand guard in front of a high school, the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, on December 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail)

Bomb hits French-run school in Kabul, 6 soldiers also killed on bus

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 11, 2014 | World

Kabul, Reuters—A teenage suicide bomber targeted a packed auditorium at a French-run high school in Afghanistan’s capital on Thursday, killing at least one person, hours after another attack left six Afghan soldiers dead on the outskirts of Kabul, officials...

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Saudia Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Ali AI-Naimi (C), arrives at the Grand Hotel in Vienna on December 2, 2013, prior to the start 164th meeting of OPEC, held in Vienna on December 4. (AFP PHOTO/ALEXANDER KLEIN)

Saudi Arabia refuses to cut oil output

by Wael Mahdi | Dec 11, 2014 | Business

Khobar, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia said this week that it will not reduce oil output in response to a surplus that has sent global prices tumbling. “Why should I cut production?” Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Ali Al-Naimi, said during a...

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Gen. Khalifa Haftar attends a news conference in Abyar, east of Benghazi, on May 17, 2014. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Files)

France blocks British call for sanctions on Haftar: Libyan minister

by Khalid Mahmoud | Dec 11, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—France has blocked an attempt by Britain to impose UN sanctions on Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar, a high-level Libyan government source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday. A minister in the Tobruk-based government led by Prime Minister...

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Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al Sabah speaks during the 33rd meeting for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) interior ministers at Bayan Palace in Kuwait city on November 26, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/YASSER AL-ZAYYAT.)

GCC to study adopting Saudi, UAE terror lists

by Fahd Al-Zayabi | Dec 11, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Gulf states are considering adopting the terror lists issued by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait’s Interior Minister Sheikh Mohamed Al-Khalid Al-Sabah said on Wednesday. In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Kuwait’s Interior...

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Gunmen loyal to the Shi’ite Houthi movement man a checkpoint on the outskirts of Sana’’a, Yemen, on October 18, 2014. (EPA/YAHYA ARHAB)

Houthis take control of Sana’a air defenses: military sources

by Arafat Madabish | Dec 11, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s air defenses are now under control of the Houthi movement after the Shi’ite militia took control of Daylami Air Base, home of the country’s main missile system close to the capital Sana’a, military sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on...