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A man stands on a staircase inside a destroyed building in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 6, 2015. (AFP Photo/Youssef Karwashan)

UN urges evacuation of Palestinian refugees in Syria camp

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 7, 2015 | Middle East

United Nations, AP—The UN Security Council called Monday for life-saving assistance and safe evacuation for up to 18,000 Palestinians facing escalating fighting in a refugee camp in the Syrian capital and what the UN official in charge described as “a completely...

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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a petrochemical plant in Zhangzhou, China, on April 7, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)

Blast at chemical plant in China injures at least 6

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 7, 2015 | World

Beijing, AP—Six people were hospitalized and hundreds of firefighters deployed to fight a hydrocarbon fire following an explosion at a plant in southern China that produces the toxic chemical paraxylene, officials said Tuesday. Authorities said there were no leaks...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) as they walk in the city of Geneva, on January 14, 2015 (AP Photo/Keystone,Laurent Gillieron)

Opinion: The Growing Iranian Threat to the Gulf

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Apr 7, 2015 | Opinion

I aim to focus here on the impact of the Iran nuclear deal on two of the region’s polar opposites: Iran and Saudi Arabia. Before US President Barack Obama launched negotiations with the Iranian regime, the relationship was easy to define. Saudi Arabia was in the same...

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A technician prepares a Royal Saudi Air Force warplane before it takes part in Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, on April 5, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency)

Houthis setting up command centers in civilian areas: Saudi Defense Ministry

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Apr 6, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Militias belonging to the Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi movement are deliberately setting up military command centers in civilian areas, Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters at the Riyadh Airbase, Defense Ministry...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on February 25, 2015.
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Opinion: Moscow is seeking a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula

by Salman Al-dossary | Apr 6, 2015 | Opinion

So Russia is concerned about the humanitarian situation in Yemen! Do not ask how and why this has suddenly happened. Russia seems to have a twinge of guilt perhaps and wants to atone for its previous mistakes against the Syrian people, hundreds of thousands of whom it...