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Yemeni peace talks session in Kuwait, A.P

Four-Week-Long Yemeni Peace Talks Reach a Dead End

by Arafat Madabish | May 14, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh – U.N. sponsored Yemeni peace talks, currently held in Kuwait, have come into their fourth week of sessions with no evident results -relative to the set work agenda- surfacing. The sole achievements so far lie in the partial understandings arrived at on the...

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City workers cross the Millennium footbridge in the financial district of London, Britain January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

German Firms Scaling Back Investment in Britain Ahead of EU Vote

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 14, 2016 | Business

BERLIN – German companies are considered among the major biggest foreign investors in the Britain, with 2,500 subsidiaries embracing around 500,000 British employees in different sectors; according to German Industry UK. Today, German firms are scaling back...

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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters. Reuters

Turkey Pounds PKK as ISIS Militants Killed in Shelling, Coalition Air Strike

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 14, 2016 | Middle East

The Turkish military said Saturday that its warplanes have carried out nine airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country and northern Iraq. The state-run Anadolu Agency cited the military as saying the warplanes destroyed 98 targets Friday of the...

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Sarah Sewall: The Next Step to Fight Corruption Will be Taken at the UN

by Mina Al-Droubi | May 14, 2016 | World

In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat on the sidelines of the anti-corruption summit held in London recently, US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall said: “The next step on the path of global efforts to fight corruption will...

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American Actress and Producer, Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster: ‘Money Monster’ is more Like Hollywood than any of My Other Works

by Mohammed Rouda | May 14, 2016 | Interviews

Cannes- Many written and presented film scripts, which fail to find a producer, are marshaled and stacked into the film industry’s keeping drawers. Jodie Foster’s thriller “Money Monster” did not make it to big-screen production right away, first written by Alan Di...