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Striking employees of Roissy airport hold French CGT labour union flags during a demonstration against the labour reforms law at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, near Paris, France, June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

French Finance Minister Tells Workers: No Sense in Strikes as Growth Picks Up

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 9, 2016 | World

France’s Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, urged workers to end a flood of nationwide strikes, saying they risked undermining signs of stronger growth and falling unemployment. Rubbish piled up in parts of Paris as stoppages and pickets blocked waste treatment...

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Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh speaks to the media in Amman. Reuters

Judeh in Moscow to Consolidate Deal on Calm along Border with Syria

by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Jun 9, 2016 | Middle East

Amman-Jordanian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh will travel to Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and several Russian officials. Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sabah al-Rafei told Asharq Al-Awsat...

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Militants Say Kill 43 in Attack on Ethiopian Base in Somalia

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 9, 2016 | World

Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group said it ran a suicide car bomb into an African Union military base, in the central town of Halgan, raged inside and killed 43 Ethiopian soldiers on Thursday. The AU force said it had repulsed an “attempted attack”....

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The Mark of Ali Ibrahim

by Salman Al-dossary | Jun 9, 2016 | Opinion

“Who is going to live forever?” he said the last time we sat together and then left. Little did he know that this would be the last I hear from him; I also did not know that I had kept away many things I wanted to say, and which he would never hear again. I would...

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ISIL fighters have set up checkpoints and prepared ambushes to prevent people from leaving [Reuters

U.N. Says 90,000 Civilians could be Trapped in Fallujah

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 9, 2016 | Middle East

Fallujah – The United Nations said on Wednesday as many as 90,000 civilians could be trapped in the besieged area of Fallujah, nearly doubling its earlier estimate of 50,000. The U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Lise Grande, warned that civilians could...