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Tubes of the Zika virus in a German laboratory. Reuters

WHO Says Zika Increasingly Alarming but Olympics should be OK

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 17, 2016 | Health

The World Health Organization’s chief said Tuesday that the agency is increasingly worried about the Zika virus but stopped short of recommending the cancellation or the postponement of the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. In a briefing Tuesday in Geneva, Dr....

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People gather at the site of suicide bombings in Baghdad. Reuters

Scores Dead in Baghdad Bombings

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 17, 2016 | Middle East

At least 44 people were killed and more than 90 wounded in two bombings that hit the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, police and medical sources said, following the bloodiest week of attacks inside Baghdad so far this year. A suicide bombing in an outdoor market in the...

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens and firefighters gather at the scene where one of rockets hit the Dubeet hospital in the central Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, A.P.

Russian-Iranian ‘Postharvest Soil Turnover’ Plan to Take over Aleppo

by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | May 17, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh- Asaad al-Zoubi, head of the Syrian opposition delegation of High Negotiations Committee (HNC) in Geneva, revealed that Russian air campaigns joined by Iranian forces and regime forces have a recent attack plan underway. The offensive, called “Postharvest soil...

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Saudi Arabia and the UAE Strengthen Relations With a Coordinating Council

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 17, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

In a move that will strengthen bilateral relations, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on Monday signed a protocol to establish a coordinating council in the presence of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) and United Nations special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura (R) attend the ministerial meeting on Syria in Vienna, Austria, May 17, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

World, Regional Powers Meet in Vienna to Solve Syria Impasse

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 17, 2016 | Middle East

World and regional powers are meeting in Vienna to solve the deadlock between the tenaciously divided Syrian factions that has led to the rise of extremists and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since violence turned to war five years ago. But the gathering is...