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Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf (2nd-L) arrives to offer condolences after the death of Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz in Riyadh, on January 24, 2015. (Reuters/Saudi Press Agency/Handout via Reuters)
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Anti-Houthi protesters demonstrate in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz on March 22, 2015, after Houthi fighters opposed to Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi took over the city. (Reuters/Anees Mahyoub)
Yemen plunges into “state of war” as Houthis seize country’s third city
Sana’a and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fighters from the Shi’ite Houthi movement seized Yemen’s third-largest city Taiz late on Saturday as the political crisis currently gripping the country threatened to boil over into a full-scale internal conflict. Local...Caption:
France’s far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen (L) casts her ballot as she votes in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, on March 22, 2015. France goes to the polls in a two-round departmental election for local officials on March 22 and March 29. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)
France goes to polls with National Front in ascendancy
Paris, Reuters—Voting began on Sunday in the first round of French local elections where the anti-immigration National Front (FN) hopes to come top and consolidate leader Marine Le Pen’s bid for the presidency in 2017. Opinion polls suggest voters are unexcited...Caption:
Head of the Iraqi Shi’ite militia the Badr Organization Hadi Al-Ameri (R) meets with military commanders near Samarra in northern Iraq, on March 4, 2015. (EPA/Ali Mohammed)