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In this January 27, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama meets Saudi Arabian King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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People flee as smoke billows after airstrikes hit the house of Yemen’s former president Saleh in Sana’a on May 10, 2015.
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Yemen ruling party to consider steps against Saleh: GPC official
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The General People’s Congress (GPC), Yemen’s ruling party, will discuss whether to withdraw backing for its leader Ali Abdullah Saleh following his declaration of support for the powerful Houthi rebel group, a leading GPC official told Asharq...Caption:
Two ancient Assyrian human-headed winged bull statues stand in Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad on March 1, 2015.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)
Iraq says ISIS demolishes ruins to cover up looting operations
Baghdad, AP—The videos of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq’s museums and blowing up 3,000-year-old temples are chilling enough, but one of Iraq’s top antiquities officials is now saying the destruction...Caption:
Nepalese patients are carried out of a hospital building as a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits the country, in Kathmandu on May 12, 2015. (AFP Photo/Prakash Mathema)
Another major quake hits Nepal, epicenter near China border
Kathmandu, AP—A major earthquake has hit Nepal near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest less than three weeks after the country was devastated by a quake. The US Geological Survey said the quake hit with a magnitude of 7.3 in an...Caption:
US President Barack Obama speaks during the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)