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Saudi Arabia led a shift in OPEC policy last year by rejecting calls to reduce production in order to support prices

The Most Cautious Budget with Regards to Oil Price Calculation

by Wael Mahdi | Dec 29, 2015 | Latest News

As oil prices fall to their lowest level in 11 years, the Saudi government yesterday announced a budget with the most cautious oil price in 10 years despite it facing the problem of the current decline and volatility in oil prices by reducing its dependence on oil...

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Opinion: Impressions from a Gulf Visit

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Dec 29, 2015 | Opinion

The famous quote “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain among others may not sound true now as it used to in the past; statistics, as a science, has advanced a lot since then. Thus, it may be...

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First Perpetrator of the Paris Terror Attacks Buried in Private

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2015 | World

Several Paris sources revealed that the remains of one of the perpetrators of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris was buried in a private ceremony with a few participants. Samy Amimour was one of three men who participated in the Bataclan concert hall bloody...

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Al-Jaafari to Asharq Al-Awsat: “There are no Iranian camps in Iraq, instead there are world-wide international consultants.”

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Dec 28, 2015 | Interviews

Below is an extract of an interview held with the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who is also Iraq’s former Prime Minister, about the current atmosphere in Iraq. • What is going to happen after the Arab ministerial meeting, and the positive...

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Russia’s special envoy to Syria secretly paid a visit to Israel

Russia Uses Political Flirtation with Israel

by Kifah Ziboun | Dec 28, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

Israeli political sources revealed that Russia’s special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentie, secretly paid a visit to Israel last Thursday, and met senior officials of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in addition to a Mossad official at Prime Minister...