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Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair speaks during the opening of a forum to discuss emerging trends in hydrocarbon production and use in the region, in Kuwait City, on January 21, 2015. (AFP Photo/Yasser Al-Zayyat)

Oil prices rise above $60 for first time this year

by Wael Mahdi | Feb 18, 2015 | Business

Kuwait City, Asharq Al-Awsat—Global oil prices rose above 60 US dollars a barrel for the first time this year on Monday, on news of a sharp drop in US oil drilling activity and falling output from Libya, though they slipped slightly again during trading on Tuesday....

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Houthi protesters chant anti-government slogans as they attend a demonstration blocking major roadways in Sana’a, Yemen on Wednesday, September 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Opinion: Military intervention will not solve Yemen’s problems

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 18, 2015 | Opinion

The UN Security Council has come to a rare consensus on rejecting the Houthi seizure of power in Yemen. But there’s no real appetite for military action or for dropping the quest for reconciliation, which UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar is trying to achieve. There is...

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Malak al-Khatib (C), a 14-year old schoolgirl who was jailed in an Israeli prison for six week, sits with friends at her home in the West Bank village of Beitin after she was released the previous day on February 14, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Israel’s youngest Palestinian prisoner: I learned what suffering means in jail

by Kifah Ziboun | Feb 18, 2015 | Features

Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—While many teenage girls around the world are preoccupied with navigating the adolescent dramas of high school, feuding with their parents, and dreaming of Justin Bieber, one Palestinian teenager recently returned home after gaining the...