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Acadia Drug Approval Could Clear Way for Axovant Dementia Therapy

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 28, 2016 | Health

A Bermuda-based company is closely studying an imminent ruling on Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc’s drug for Parkinson’s disease psychosis, with a similar treatment for dementia. Axovant Sciences Ltd’s experimental drug for Lewy body dementia –...

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a news conference regarding issues on undocumented immigrants in Beverly Hills, California

Republicans, Obama Immigration Chief Clash Over Criminal Immigrants

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 28, 2016 | World

WASHINGTON – During a congressional hearing on the crimes that are recorded to be committed by illegal immigrants, a fiery exchange took place, where Republicans grilled top Obama administration immigration official Sarah Saldana. The main problem is that Republicans...

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Donald Trump pauses during the first official Republican presidential debate of the 2016 election in Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Trump’s “America first” Speech Agitates U.S. Allies

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 28, 2016 | World

After a number of controversial speeches delivered by Donald Trump, his latest and first major foreign policy address alarmed American allies, who view the Republican front runner’s repeated invocation of an “America first” agenda as a threat to...

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Shi’ite fighters launch a rocket towards ISIS militants during heavy fighting in Salahuddin province, March 4, 2015. Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells in the Ajil field east of the city of Tikrit to try to hinder aerial attacks aimed at driving them from the oilfield, a witness and military source said. A police source in Salahuddin province, where Tikrit is located, said an eight-vehicle convoy of Islamic State insurgents attacked Iraqi forces at dawn on Thursday in al-Muaibidi area east of Alam. Picture taken March 4, 2015. REUTERS/ Mahmoud Raouf (IRAQ – Tags: CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS) – RTR4S66L

IRGC Moves Tons of Arms into Tuz Khormato

by Dalshad Abdullah | Apr 28, 2016 | Middle East

Irbil- Official security sources revealed that Iran will be sending tons of ammo, arms and missiles to Shi’ite Popular Mobilization Forces and Hezbollah militants who are situated in the central city of Tooz District in Saladin Province Tuz Khormato. The artilleries...

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A man at a site recently hit by what activists said was a Scud missile in Aleppo’s Ard al-Hamra neighborhood, February 23, 2013, REUTERS

The U.S. Veto on Arming the Syrian Opposition

by Thaer Abbas | Apr 28, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Syrian Opposition members objected to the presence of a “U.S. Veto” against the armament of the Syrian opposition, despite that the artillery shipped was sent by a powerful Arab country. Among the conveyed arms were specialized weapons. A Syrian Opposition...