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Ould Cheikh’s Meetings With the Rebel Delegation Will Determine the Fate of Consultations

by Arafat Madabish | May 30, 2016 | Middle East

The UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed continued to hold meetings with the rebel (Houthi – Saleh) delegation in Kuwait yesterday. The UN envoy’s office said that the main issues discussed by Ould Cheikh with the delegation include “details and mechanisms...

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Opinion: The Battle Between Excellent Writers – “Medicine for Diabetes and Blood Pressure”

by Samir Atallah | May 30, 2016 | Opinion

The brilliant Al-Ahram columnist Salah Montaser began his career in journalism in 1953 at the Akher Saa magazine that was bought by Mustafa and Ali Amin from Mohamed El-Tabii who continued to write the main article entitled “From Week to Week”. Mohamed Hassanein...

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GCC Foreign Ministers hold talks with British Foreign Secretary in Jeddah

139th GCC Ministerial Meeting Held in Jeddah

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 30, 2016 | Middle East

Jeddah-Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states held a meeting in Jeddah on Sunday under the chairmanship of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, chairman of the current rotatory 139th session, and in...

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Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa attends a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Riyadh June 11, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Bahrain Court Upholds Life Sentence, Revocation of Citizenship for Five Activists

by Obaid Al-Suhaymi | May 30, 2016 | Middle East

Manama- An appeals court in Bahrain has upheld the life sentences as well as the citizenship revocation of five activists over allegations of spying for the Iranian National Guard and planning attacks in the country by training people to use weapons and explosives to...

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Mohammad Alloush of the Jaish al Islam faction and member of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) attends a news conference after a meeting with U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura during Syria Peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, April 13, 2016.
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Syrian Opposition Negotiator Quits with Peace Talks Stalling

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 30, 2016 | Middle East

The chief peace negotiator of Syria’s mainstream opposition in the Geneva peace talks has resigned on Sunday amid no signs of progress in the U.N.- backed peace process that began earlier this year. Mohammed Alloush said he took this step because the...