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People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

Twitter for Sale, Companies May Soon Bid

by Khaldoun Ghassan Said | Sep 25, 2016 | Business, Technology

Jeddah – You might be using Twitter under a new administration in the near future as news circulated in technology circles saying that some companies may soon officially bid to buy Twitter. Reports revealed that Google, Alphabet, may be interested in acquiring...

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Manchester City have moved on and no one is clamouring for Yaya Touré, in action here against Steaua Bucharest in August, to return to the side. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/AFP/Getty Images

Yaya Touré’s Agent should Pipe down. Pep Guardiola Holds all the Aces

by Paul Wilson | Sep 25, 2016 | Sports

Dimitri Seluk is right about one thing, and perhaps only one thing. Pep Guardiola is the king of Manchester at the moment, operating from a position of strength. So if Yaya Touré’s agent sees the treatment of his client as a declaration of war, and prefers to fight...

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Protesters run after clashes with the police during a rally to demand a referendum to remove Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, September 1, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Venezuelan Opposition: We are Worried of Iran’s Terrorism

by Luisa Polido | Sep 25, 2016 | Interviews

Bogota – The wives of Venezuelan opposition figures formed a “Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners” after the opposition rejected the national electoral council agreement to collect 4 million signatures for a public referendum on Nicolas Maduro’s...

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Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), at a news conference in Berlin on Monday. (Stefanie Loos/Reuters)

America’s Internationalist Ideal is Dying in Europe

by Jim Hoagland | Sep 25, 2016 | Opinion

The surge of populist right-wing parties in Europe has now damaged the standing of the continent’s most important leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Worse, the rise of movements fueled by nationalistic and racist programs signals that a core ethos of the...

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Anti-Houthi protesters run as pro-Houthi police troopers fire tear gas to disperse them in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz March 22, 2015. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub

Houthi General Killed on Saudi-Yemen Border

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 25, 2016 | Middle East

Major-General Hassan al-Malsi, senior military officer of Yemen’s Houthi movement has been killed in clashes on the border with Saudi Arabia. Masli, who was head of Houthi special forces, was killed on Thursday while attempting to infiltrate a squad of Houthi...