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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron leaves after meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, on March 30, 2015. (Reuters/Anthony Devlin/pool)

UK’s Cameron meets Queen, starts knife-edge election campaign

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 30, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—Campaigning in Britain’s closest election in decades began on Monday after Prime Minister David Cameron met Queen Elizabeth II to tell her parliament had been dissolved, teeing up a fraught battle to govern a 2.8 trillion US dollar economy....

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A screen-grab of footage presented by Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry on March 29, 2015 shows Saudi warplanes bombing Houthi targets in Yemen. (SPA/Saudi Defense Ministry)

Saudi-led airstrikes cut off Iranian supplies to Houthis: defense ministry

by Fahd Al-Zayabi | Mar 30, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi-led airstrikes against the Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi movement in Yemen have successfully cut off air supply lines to the movement from Tehran, Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday. In his daily briefing on the progress of the...

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A member of the Iraqi security smokes a cigarette atop a damaged house in the southern entrance of the city of Tikrit on March 29, 2015 during a military operation to retake the northern Iraqi city from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group jihadists (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Iran says US drone kills two advisers in Iraq, US denies claim

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 30, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, AP—Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says a US drone strike has killed two of its advisers in Iraq, though the US said on Monday it has only struck militants in its campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group. The claim came...

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Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in February 2012 when he formally handed over power to his deputy. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

Opinion: The Curse of Ali Abdullah Saleh

by Diana Moukalled | Mar 30, 2015 | Opinion

Following the ouster of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011, I visited Yemen twice, with my last visit coming just over three months ago. During those visits I always noticed his old pictures, still hanging in Sana’a, though some had been ripped up and...