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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance to the newly-built Pyongyang City Mushroom Farm in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang January 10, 2015. (Reuters)

N. Korea offers to suspend nuclear tests if US suspends military drills

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 10, 2015 | World

Seoul, Reuters—North Korea said on Saturday it was willing to suspend nuclear tests if the United States agreed to call off annual military drills held jointly with South Korea, but Washington rejected the proposal as a veiled threat. The offer, which the...

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Journalists stand in front of a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, on January 10, 2015 a day after four people were killed at the Jewish supermarket by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly during a hostage-taking. French forces were on January 10 frantically hunting for the Coulibaly’s 26-year-old girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, as the […]

Opinion: We need a new anti-terror strategy

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jan 10, 2015 | Opinion

The Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo and the subsequent events in France serve as an unfortunate reminder that the threat of terrorism is a real and present danger, and that nobody is safe from it. Today, it is difficult to completely secure capitals or major cities, and...

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File photo of United Nations envoy Bernardino Leon taken in Brussels on Nov 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Libya’s factions agree to new talks in Geneva

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 10, 2015 | Middle East

Tripoli, Reuters—Libya’s factions have agreed to a new round of UN-backed negotiations to attempt to end the conflict destabilizing the North African country three years after its civil war ousted Muammar Gaddafi. The meeting, announced after United Nations...

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File photo shows image of Mamdouh Al-Mutairi (L) and Abdullah Al-Shammari who carried out the attack on Arar border crossing.
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Arar border attack carried out by Saudi ISIS members: sources

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Jan 10, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—A deadly attack on Saudi border guards along the Saudi-Iraqi frontier this week was carried out by Saudi members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seeking to cross back into the Kingdom undetected, security sources told Asharq...

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Shi’ite Houthi rebels man a checkpoint at the southern entrance to the city of Sana’a, on November 15, 2014.
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Riyadh renews efforts to calm Yemen crisis: presidential adviser

by Arafat Madabish | Jan 10, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia has renewed regional efforts to implement the UN-sponsored Peace and Partnership Agreement aimed at restoring stability and security in Yemen, a Yemeni presidential adviser told Asharq Al-Awsat, as the powerful Houthi rebel group,...