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In this posed picture taken in London on June 25, 2016, a laptop screen displays a parliamentary petition on the website of the British government, calling for a 2nd UK referendum on the UK’s inclusion within the EU, following the pro-Brexit result of the June 23 vote to leave. More than a million people have signed a petition calling for a second referendum, after “Leave” voters won a shock victory to pull Britain out of the European Union, an official website showed Saturday. The result of Britain’s June 23 referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) has pitted parents against children, cities against rural areas, north against south and university graduates against those with fewer qualifications, AFP

An in The Cards U.K. Petition for New EU Referendum

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 25, 2016 | World

A few days after voting to leave the European Union, over 1.5 million Britons and UK residents had signed a petition calling for a second vote, forcing lawmakers to at least consider a debate on the issue. The petition on the British parliament website was posted...

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Egypt Seeks Help From French Experts After Failing to Download Plane’s Black Box Data

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 25, 2016 | Middle East

The investigative committee responsible for investigating the EgyptAir plane crash has been unable to download the information held on the doomed plane’s black boxes and this has dashed hopes of reaching an explanation for the crash. Flight MS804 was flying from Paris...

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Fighters from Ansar Dine stand guard during hostage handover in desert outside Timbuktu. French and Malian forces have driven al-Qaeda-linked militants from Gao, Timbuktu, and Kidal, but next step of pursuing them to remote desert and mountain bolt-holes looks like much tougher task. (AP)

Algeria: An Overlong Fight with Qaeda Offshoots

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 25, 2016 | Features

Algeria- Algerian People’s National Armed Forces, (Algeria’s army) has accomplished several and sequential victories over extremist armed groups which have been fought since the wake of Algeria’s war against terrorism in 1993. With sporadic military operations,...

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Taiz: Deceptive Houthis Free “Prisoners” Who Are Actually Citizens

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 25, 2016 | Middle East

Local sources in Taiz revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that rebel militias have made attempts and taken steps to deceive national, regional and international public opinion by circulating a succession of news stories about the release of those they claim to be “prisoners”....

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Smoke rises from villages in the southern rural area of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said

SDF Pushes into ISIS Border Hub as Russian Planes Pound Aleppo

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 25, 2016 | Middle East

The Syrian Democratic Forces, U.S.-backed Syrian fighters, pushed further into the ISIS stronghold of Manbij on Saturday, seizing a key road junction and grain silos overlooking the city, a monitoring group said. The city lies close to the border with Turkey and is a...