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Does Worldwide Financial Policy Threaten Global Economy?

by Sobhi Najeh | Jun 11, 2016 | Business

The global economic crisis has left the economies of developed countries with huge challenges. Most of the governments resorted to set quantitative facilitation programs (assets’ purchase) as an easy measure to pump liquidity in the markets. Also, the sovereign debts...

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Anger in U.S. over Classified Report on Revolutionary Guard’s Arrest of Marines

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 11, 2016 | World

London-The issue of Iran’s arrest of American marines earlier this year has come to forefront amid calls on the Obama administration and the U.S. Navy to release the details of a report on Tehran’s humiliation of sailors in the Arab Gulf. America’s Fox News quoted...

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Palestinians pray in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound during the first Friday prayers of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016. AFP

U.N. Says Israeli Move on Palestinians May be Collective Punishment, France Warns over Fueling Tensions

by Asharq AlAwsat and Nazir Majli | Jun 11, 2016 | Middle East

Geneva-Tel Aviv-The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, condemned on Friday the killing of four Israelis in an attack in Tel Aviv but stressed Israel’s cancellation of entry permits for Palestinians may amount...

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A Lebanese banker counts US dollars at BLOM Bank’s head office in Beirut October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi

Families of Hezbollah MPs and Ministers Might be Targeted by U.S. Sanctions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 11, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-The issue of U.S. sanctions has now become a priority for the so-called Hezbollah amid information that Lebanese banks will take escalatory measures that include the closure of bank accounts of Hezbollah lawmakers, ministers and their families. A verbal attack...

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Jean-Marc Ayrault, French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, attends a press conference at the United Nations in New York, June 10, 2016. KENA BETANCUR / AFP

France Calls for Calm between U.N., Riyadh

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 11, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

United Nations-French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called Friday to do all what it necessary to resolve the row between the United Nations and Saudi Arabia over the report on the violation of children’s rights, saying France could help defuse tensions. “Saudi...