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Oil Price at $45 per Barrel, Waiting for Possible Stabilization in Algeria

by Sabri Najeh | Sep 21, 2016 | Business

Cairo-International benchmark Brent crude oil futures were trading at about $45 per barrel on Tuesday. Oil Investor T. Boone Pickens believes the price of oil will rise to a range of $55 to $60 a barrel by the end of the year, he said in an interview with Reuters on...

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Iran Prepares for a Post-Sistani Era

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 21, 2016 | World

London – Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is no longer bothered by accusations and attacks from Muqtada al-Sadr, head of Sadrist Movement, the most popular among Shiite movements in power after 2003. Based on what an Iraqi Shiite leader at one of the...

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Roots, Ancestors Argument in France’s Electoral Competition

by Michel Abu Najm | Sep 21, 2016 | World

Paris-Two voting rounds will be held on November 20 and 27, to select the nominee of the right-wing Republicans party who will represent it in the 2017 France’s presidential elections. The most prominent candidates for these elections are former French President...

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Opinion: 25 Years of Enlightenment

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 21, 2016 | Opinion

The years have passed by quickly since MBC TV was launched but the journey has not been a smooth one. It was not just an ordinary TV station and it was not established just to fill the gap for entertainment channels or make a profit. When Sheikh Waleed founded it, he...

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Iraqi Forces Make Progress Near Mosul as they Seek to Flush out ISIS in Anbar

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 21, 2016 | Middle East

Iraq’s military closed in on Wednesday on the center of Shirqat, a northern town in Salahuddin province, held by ISIS seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture the terrorist group’s stronghold of Mosul. The army, backed by local police and...