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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLVC-21 lifts off carrying one French and one Japanese satellite from a launch pad in Sriharikota, southern India. Associated Press

India Successfully Tests Mini Space Shuttle

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 24, 2016 | Technology

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has said that it successfully launched its first small space shuttle as part of its efforts to make low-cost reusable spacecraft. ISRO said a rocket carrying the shuttle lifted off from a launch pad in southern India on...

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Pakistani local residents gathering around a destroyed vehicle hit by a drone strike in which Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour was believed to be travelling. AFP

U.S. Officials Say Slain Taliban Leader was Planning Attacks on Americans

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 24, 2016 | World

President Barack Obama approved a drone strike that killed the Taliban leader because he was overseeing plans for new attacks on American targets in the Afghan capital, U.S. officials have said. U.S. forces targeted Mullah Akhtar Mansour because he was plotting...

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Vehicles of the Iraqi security forces are seen on the outskirts of Falluja, Iraq, May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Fallujah Battle Launched, PMF Bombards with Sectarian Missiles

by Hamza Mustafa Munaf alObeidi and Nayef alRas | May 24, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad, Fallujah, Riyadh-Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi deliberately ignored Fallujah’s citizens’ appeals to exclude Popular Mobilization forces’ militias from the battle to free the city. Local sources confirmed that they are participating in the operation,...

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Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark. Reuters

New Zealand’s Candidate for Top U.N. Post: Fighting Terror Requires Int’l Cooperation

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | May 24, 2016 | Interviews

Cairo-Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand and its candidate for the post of United Nations Secretary-General, said that she is qualified and has enough experience to replace U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon. Clark told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the fight...

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People inspect the damage after explosions hit the Syrian city of Tartous, in this handout picture provided by SANA. Reuters

U.N. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Tartous

by Jordan Dakamseh | May 24, 2016 | Middle East

New York-United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of dozens of civilians in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous. A statement attributable to his spokesperson said that the Secretary-General...