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A fuel tanker navigates near the Cienfuegos Oil Refinery some 240 kilometres, (150 miles), southeast of Havana in this file photo dated February 7, 2013. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

U.S. Crude Down after Big Stockpile Build Report

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 24, 2016 | Business

Oil prices fell on Wednesday, with U.S. crude falling more than 3 percent, after a sudden large inventory build in the world’s biggest oil consumer renewed worries about oversupply. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that crude inventories...

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) meets with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan at Beylerbeyi Palace in Istanbul November 22, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Biden Says Syrian Kurdish Forces Must Pull Back to Get U.S. Support after Manbij

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 24, 2016 | Middle East

The United States made it clear to Kurdish forces in Syria that retreating beyond the east of the Euphrates river after seizing control of the Syrian town of Manbij is a condition to retain U.S. support, Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. Ankara has worded...

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New Majalla Website: News in Motion for a World in Transition

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 24, 2016 | Features

We are thrilled to announce a new step forward in Middle Eastern journalism: Majalla, a multimedia news site in Arabic, Persian, and English. Since 1980, the print magazine Al-Majalla (“The Scroll”) has delivered reporting and analysis in Arabic to readers across the...

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Nigerian Army Confirms That Boko Haram Leader Was Wounded in Air Raid

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 24, 2016 | World

The Nigerian army yesterday announced that the leader of Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau was seriously injured and a number of the extremist group’s leaders were killed in an air strike on their stronghold in north east Nigeria. The announcement, which coincides with the...

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Trump Suggests “Softening” His Hardline Position on Immigration

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 24, 2016 | World

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he is open to “softening” his hard-line stance on illegal immigration that he has taken since the start of his campaign. Trump did not provide further details. Speaking to Fox News anchor Sean...