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A protester, who is an Israeli Jew of Ethiopian origin, shouts at a policeman during a demonstration against what the minority community says is police racism and brutality, after the emergence last week of a video clip that showed policemen shoving and punching a black soldier, during a protest in Tel Aviv, on May 3, 2015. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)
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Smoke billows as supporters of exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi clash with Shi’ite Houthi rebels on the outskirts of the Taiz province, Yemen, on May 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Taha Saleh)
Yemen’s ruling party backs Hadi, Popular Resistance enters Aden
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) party has announced it is backing the internationally recognized government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, directing a powerful blow to his rival and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. In a...Caption:
British Prime Minister David Cameron holds up a photocopied note left by former chief secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne on his desk after Labour’s 2010 election defeat, which reads “Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards—and good luck! Liam.” as he delivers a speech at the Ambleside Sports Club in Nuneaton, England, on May 3, 2015. Britain goes to the polls in a General Election on May 7. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, Pool)
Win or lose, Cameron’s political career hangs by a thread in UK
London, Reuters—Prime Minister David Cameron is Britain’s most popular major party leader and his Conservative Party the most trusted on the economy after helping revive it. But win or lose a knife-edge election this week, his career hangs by a thread. If he...Caption:
Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama shake hands moments before the opening ceremony of the VII Americas Summit, in Panama City on April 10, 2015. (AFP Photo/Presidencia Panama)
Opinion: Cuba and the Difficult Changes Ahead
I recently visited Cuba, as I wanted to see this country—one that almost caused a third world war, and which along with North Korea is the world’s last remaining insular communist nation—before it finally begins to open up to the world and become like other...Caption:
Sunni volunteers carry weapons during a parade as they prepare to fight against ISIS militants, in the town of Amriyat Al-Falluja in Anbar province, January 8, 2015. (Reuters)