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Flowers and a condolence message that reads “In memory of Boris” are placed with a portrait of Boris Nemtsov at the site where Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin, against a backdrop of the Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 4, 2015 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview to Portuguese broadcaster RTP in Damascus. (AFP)
Syria to West: Accept that Assad is here to stay
New York, Reuters—Syria’s envoy to the United Nations says it’s time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar Al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the...Caption:
Muslim Brotherhood leader Hammam Said (C) delivers a speech at the Al-Hussein Mosque in Amman on November 7, 2014. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
No change in Jordan Muslim Brotherhood status: PM
Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—There will be no change in the Muslim Brotherhood’s status in Jordan, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour confirmed following a meeting with the group on Thursday. Ensour met with a number of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Amman to discuss...Caption:
One of the Abu Simbel murals. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Abu Simbel graffitied to attract tourism
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Graffiti documented the Egyptian revolution in Cairo’s streets and squares. Now the art form appears to have spread to the municipality of Aswan, a prominent antiquity and civilization storehouse in southern Egypt. The Sun Colors...Caption:
Security officials secure the site near La Terrasse restaurant where militants killed five people, including a French citizen and a Belgian citizen, in a gun attack in Bamako March 7, 2015. (Reuters/Adama Diarra)