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Opinion: Privacy in the Digital Age

by Diana Moukalled | Aug 22, 2015 | Opinion

“Mom, you cannot check my messages. I need my privacy, please!” Adam, my 10-year-old son, said to me while I was helping him sign up for a new e-mail address. I could not answer back and I was rather quite surprised by what he said. My little boy, who still enjoys...

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Militants loyal to Yemen’s exiled government ride on the back of a pick-up truck during fighting with Houthi militiamen in Yemen’s central city of Taiz on August 18, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Yemen: Government loyalists, Tihamah’s tribes to form joint command, says official

by Sa'ed Al-Abyadh | Aug 22, 2015 | Middle East

Jeddah and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has approved a plan to establish three military formations, made up mainly of tribal fighters and former military personnel, to fight the Houthi insurgency in the Tihamah region, a...