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Libyan MP: Aguila Saleh is Complicating All Solutions

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Aug 31, 2016 | Interviews

Cairo–Chairman of Parliamentary Health, Economy and Investment Committee MP Ayman Seif al-Nasr said that Speaker Aquila Saleh wants to overthrow the government. During his visit to Egypt as part of a Libyan delegation, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper interviewed Nasr on the...

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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March 15, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah)

1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials

by Adel al-Salmi | Aug 31, 2016 | World

London- Heated controversy sparked-off 20 days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the regime-carried death sentences in 1988. Montazeri’s controversial audio...

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A handout picture released by the official website of the Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on January 14, 2016 shows him (R) meeting with the Saudi ambassador to Iraqi Thamer al-Sabhan in the capital Baghdad. AFP

Iraq’s Request to Replace Saudi Ambassador Sparks Debate among Blocs

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 31, 2016 | Middle East, Saudi Arabia

Baghdad- Iraq’s request to replace the Saudi ambassador in Baghdad has caused serious debates among Iraqi blocs in the parliament. National Iraqi Alliance, the largest Shi’ite bloc, had announced its approval of the procedures, while the parliament’s largest Sunni...

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Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world, but perhaps not for long. Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build a 1 kilometer (3,280 foot) tower into the sky, to be named the Jeddah Tower, scheduled for completion in 2020. The Burj Khallifa currently stands at 2,716 ft. REUTERS/Matthias Seifert

Saudi: Commercial Sector Prices on the Rise

by Abdulilahi Al-Shadid | Aug 31, 2016 | Business

Riyadh- In coincidence with the residential properties sector poor performance, the commercial properties sector seems to undergo a first of its kind rise in prices, especially in the commercial stores rental fees during the past five years. Ibrahim Mortada, manager...

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Investigators, Interior Ministry officers and members of security forces work near the site of a bomb blast outside China’s embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Aug 30, 2016. Reuters

Terrorist Attack Targets China’s Kyrgyzstan Embassy

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2016 | World

Bishkek-A van driven by a suicide bomber exploded after ramming through a gate at the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday, injuring three people, Kyrgyz authorities said. “As a result of the explosion, only the suicide bomber terrorist died. Security guards...