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Three Terror Suspects Are Released After Being Questioned in Brussels

by Abdullah Mustafa | Aug 13, 2016 | World

In a statement that they made yesterday, Belgian prosecutors said that three people arrested on Thursday night in the vicinity of Brussels for questioning related to terrorism have been released. A spokesman for the prosecutors told Agence France Press (AFP) that the...

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Turkey Says No Compromise with Washington on Cleric Extradition

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 13, 2016 | World

Turkey will not compromise with Washington over the extradition of the cleric it accuses of standing behind an abortive coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday, warning of rising anti-Americanism if the U.S. fails to extradite. Yildirim’s comments,...

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General secretary of Central Council of Muslims in Germany (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland – ZMD) Nurhan Soykan (L) meets with Germany’s right-wing populist AfD co-chair Frauke Petry (R) om May 23, 2016 in Berlin. / AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ

German Far-Right Leader Wants to Send Refugees to Islands Outside Europe

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 13, 2016 | World

The head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) says Berlin should send rejected asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to islands outside Europe and turn its refugee office into an emigration bureau. Party leader Frauke Petry made the suggestions in an...

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Ahmed Hussien, 18, carries freshly harvested wheat in a field in Qaha, El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Egypt Public Prosecutor Orders 13 Arrested in Wheat Corruption Case

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 13, 2016 | Middle East

Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered 13 arrests for 15 days each pending an investigation into their role in a wheat procurement corruption scandal, judicial sources said on Saturday. The 13 facing arrest are accused of exploiting, forgery and enabling the...

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British Schoolgirl Who Joined ISIS in Syria is Killed

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 13, 2016 | World

One of the three schoolgirls who left London in February 2015 to join ISIS has died, according to what Reuters reported on Thursday. The agency quoted Tasnime Akunjee, the girl’s family lawyer, who said that Kadiza Sultana’s family learned of her death in Raqqa,...