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Survivors of the Shiite Houthi milita stand next to a hole in the wall left by a bomb blast targeting their base in Sana’a, Yemen, 05 January 2015. (EPA/Yahya Arhab)

Yemen: Hadi advisers meet with Houthis on security

by Hamdan Al-Rahbi | Jan 6, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s embattled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi sent a delegation of advisers to meet with Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi on Tuesday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the country. The Yemeni presidential advisers are...

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Palestinian Muslim worshipers walk in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound following Friday prayers on May 2, 2014 in Jerusalem’s Old City. US Secretary of State John Kerry’s nine-month effort to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal formally collapsed this week, with no revival on the horizon because each side appears firmly entrenched in its positions. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD […]

Opinion: A Well-Timed Appeal for Jerusalem

by Ali Ibrahim | Jan 6, 2015 | Opinion

Calls from Muslims for fellow members of their faith to abandon the widespread boycott on visiting Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, are nothing new. Such calls have been made in the past by a number of Palestinian political and religious...

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Thousands of people demonstrate against a rally called by anti-Islam group PEGIDA in Cologne, Germany, on January 5, 2015.
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Tabloid, prominent Germans condemn anti-Muslim rallies

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 6, 2015 | World

Dresden, Germany, Reuters—Top-selling German tabloid Bild and 50 prominent Germans called on Tuesday for an end to what they see as rising xenophobia, a day after thousands of protesters in several German cities rallied against Muslim immigration. Monday’s...

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In this July 15, 2014 file photo, Haider Al-Abadi speaks to the media after an Iraqi parliament session in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Opinion: Can Relations Between Iraq and Saudi Arabia Improve?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jan 6, 2015 | Opinion

Though foreign missions in the Iraqi capital face the danger of attack, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to send a technical team to choose a new location for its embassy in Iraq, which closed its doors 24 years ago. The visit aims to break the ice in...

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File photo of traders at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in Riyadh. (Reuters)

Saudi stock market could join leading emerging markets index by April 2017: sources

by Asma Al-Ghabiri | Jan 6, 2015 | Business

Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia’s stock market, the Tadawul, could be placed on a world-leading index of emerging markets two years after it opens to global investors in April this year, sources have told Asharq Al-Awsat. Financial analyst Abdulaziz Al-Fahad said...