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The guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut is shown in this undated photo operating in the Atlantic Ocean. (Reuters/Aaron Chase/US Navy/Handout)
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Composite image showing King Salman Bin Abdulaziz (C), Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Naif (R) and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Saudi King names new heirs amid cabinet reshuffle
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has named a new Crown Prince and Deputy Crown Prince as part of a string of royal decrees issued on Tuesday, which also saw the appointment of a new foreign minister. Interior Minister Prince Mohammed Bin Naif...Caption:
Jamal Benomar, the former UN special envoy to Yemen, speaks during a press conference in Sana’a, Yemen, on December 24, 2013. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)
Opinion: Benomar failed to represent the UN in Yemen
Aside from accusations leveled against former UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar by Yemen’s politicians—who have said he lied to the UN Security Council and sought to legitimize the Houthi coup, as well as blaming him for the current catastrophic situation in Yemen—the...Caption:
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah speaks during the ANOC Awards ceremony in Bangkok on November 7, 2014. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images)
Kingmaker Sheikh Ahmad to take first step towards FIFA throne
Manama, Reuters—When FIFA President Sepp Blatter addresses delegates at the 26th Asian Football Confederation congress on Thursday at least four men watching him are likely to be imagining themselves standing in his shoes in the future. Three of them are campaigning...Caption:
Greek army Sgt. Antonis Deligiorgis (L) rescues migrant Wegasi Nebiat from Eritrea from the Aegean sea, on the island of Rhodes, Greece on April 20, 2015. (Argiris Mantikos/Eurokinissi via AP, File)