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Petrobras Cuts its Five-year Investment Plan

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 1, 2016 | Latest News, World

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Petrobras will reduce its five-year investment plan by about one-fifth next month as low oil prices, according to Reuters “massive debt and fallout from a corruption scandal hobble its ability to fund offshore projects, two...

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Rolling Stones Band

Rolling Stones Play Free Concert in Havana

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 1, 2016 | Latest News, World

HAVANA – On March 25 a free outdoor concert will be performed by The Rolling Stones in Havana as the band announced on Tuesday. This might be the best act to play since its 1959 revolution; thus a milestone event in a country where the communist government once banned...

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U.S Secretary of State

U.S Consulate Employees killed by a Blast

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 1, 2016 | Latest News, World

WASHINGTON- Two U.S consulate Employees were killed by an explosive device in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Other soldiers who were also killed on the same drug-eradication mission, as stated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday. sm The U.S Secretary of...

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Leading Saudi Cleric

Leading Saudi Cleric Shot in Philippines

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 1, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

MANILA-RIYADH, on Tuesday evening, Sheikh Ayed al-Qarni, a leading Saudi cleric, was shot and wounded by a gunman after he gave a speech to fellow Muslim preachers in a city in southern Philippines, according to authorities. The pro-government cleric with over 12...

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Opinion: A Company Called “Hezbollah”

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 1, 2016 | Opinion

To understand why Hezbollah has expanded outside its borders in Lebanon into Syria and Yemen, we must look at it as a limited company that provides services to its owner; the regime in Iran. Politicians have persistently described the group as the “Iranian proxy”. The...