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The Promenade des Anglais in Nice with flowers in tribute to the victims of the deadly attack. AFP

French Lawmakers Vote to Extend Emergency Rule after Nice Attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 20, 2016 | World

French lawmakers voted massively Wednesday to extend the state of emergency introduced late last year for a fourth time in the wake of the July 14 truck attack in the city of Nice. After seven hours of fraught debate into the night, during which the right-wing...

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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques receives King of Bahrain. SPA

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Receives King of Bahrain

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Tangier-The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, met on Tuesday with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain. King Salman received Al Khalifa at his guest residence in the region of Tanja in Morocco. During the meeting,...

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Permanent Representative of the Mission to Yemen Khaled Al-Yemany speaks with a colleague at the end of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. (AP)

Houthis’ Rebellion will End this Year, Yemen’s Permanent Representative to U.N.

by Arafat Madabesh and Jordan Dakamseh | Jul 20, 2016 | Interviews

Cairo – New York – Riyadh – U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has presented a new roadmap towards the achievement of peace in the war-torn country, according to well-informed sources. The sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Tuesday that during...

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Claudio Ranieri’s Blue Sky Thinking can Keep Leicester City’s Dream Alive

by Paul Wilson | Jul 20, 2016 | Sports

One of the many reasons for Claudio Ranieri’s popularity is his fondness for picturesque speech, simplified imagery that translates naturally into newspaper headlines. Last season saw pizza-based incentives and then alarm bell motifs worked close to exhaustion. Now...

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People stand on a Turkish army tank at Ataturk airport in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir

Erdogan Determines New Agenda: Back to Dialogue…Barracks in Taksim

by Said Abdul Razzak | Jul 20, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed his agenda for the coming period, represented in three major points: clearing the country of terrorist organizations, considering the nation’s demands of executing the perpetrators of the attempted coup and...