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New Year Without Celebrations in Paris, Brussel and Moscow

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 31, 2015 | World

Many Western capitals have strengthened their security measures in anticipation of terrorist acts coinciding with New Year’s Eve celebrations. The municipality of Brussels announced yesterday the abolition of all the celebrations and fireworks displays planned on New...

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Khalid al-Yamani

Security Council to add more Houthis to Black Lists

by Arafat Madabish | Dec 31, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

Yemen’s ambassador to the United Nations, Khalid al-Yamani, announced in exclusive statements to Asharq Al-Awsat that the current month’s US presidency of the Security Council was practicing all forms of pressure on the Houthi rebels in order to lift the siege...

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Shahindokht Moulaverdi

Iranian Hezbollah Insults Iranian President’s Adviser

by Adil Alsalmi | Dec 31, 2015 | World

Around 1,000 political and civil activists expressed support, in an open letter to the Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, for the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Moulaverdi, who was attacked by “Yalsarat weekly” extremist magazine. The...

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prices to be in line with international levels

Following Saudi Arabia… Oman Hikes Fuel Prices, Kuwait on the Way

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 31, 2015 | Business

After the step taken by the Saudi Arabia to raise fuel subsidies in line with an economic reform plan in light of the decline in oil revenues, Oman also announced that it would hike fuel prices, charges for public services and corporate taxes for the same reason. “The...

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Al-Assad’s Regime Blows Political Solution

by Paula Astih | Dec 31, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

The Syrian regime’s forces stopped Ahmad al-Asrawi and Munir al-Bitar, members of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCCDC), as they were about to cross the Syria-Lebanon border en route to Saudi Arabia to join fellow members of the...