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Syrian singer Hazem Sharif, 21, from Aleppo in northern Syria, performs on “Arab Idol,” broadcast by MBC Arabic satellite channel in Zouk Mosbeh neighborhood, north of Beirut, December 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Delegates attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima on December 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
UN talks agree building blocks for new-style climate deal in 2015
Lima, Reuters—About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures. Under the deal reached in Lima,...Caption:
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter takes his position behind a wall on the front line with militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in Tuz Khurmato on Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Peshmerga, Shi’ite forces coordinating in Jaloula: Kurdish commander
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces are “coordinating” with the remaining Shi’ite national mobilization forces in Jaloula after liberating the Kurdish-dominated town from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters last month. In comments to Asharq...Caption:
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi addresses journalists following an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Cairo on October 25, 2014. (AFP)
Opinion: Egypt faces a war on several fronts
The measures that some Western embassies in Egypt took this week—closing their doors and warning their citizens of potential terrorist attacks—remind us once again of the extent of the threats facing the Egyptian state, and the gravity of the events taking place not...Caption:
Syrian actors take part in a street performance titled ‘Sanduq al-Kar’ in Damascus in October, 2008.
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