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Workers count Yemeni currency at the Central Bank of Yemen in
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Central Banks…History of “Political Economy” in Yemen

by Badr Al-Qahtani | Oct 2, 2016 | Features

Riyadh- Monasser al-Quaiti had to wait 50 years before becoming governor of the Yemeni Central Bank. Quaiti enjoys a rich expertise, not only because he descends from the Qu’aiti Sultanate in Hadhramaut, or because he has survived two assassination attempts in...

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A civil defence member carries a child that survived from under the rubble at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria, April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Pro-Regime Airstrikes Shut Aleppo Hospital, Cut Water Supply

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 2, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local Syrian coordination committees reported that Russian and regime warplanes have bombed one of Aleppo’s central hospitals on Saturday for the second time in four days. The attack resulted in the...

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Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi addresses a speech during a demonstration against the presidential election in Iran outside the European Parliament in Brussels June 24, 2009. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Shirin Ebadi: Khomeini Ignored Request to Reveal Fate of Musa Sadr

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 2, 2016 | Middle East

London- Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi disclosed that Iran played a role in the decision taken by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to kill Imam Musa al-Sadr in 1979. Speaking for the first time about the disappearance of the founder of the Lebanese...

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Anti-Houthi fighters of the Southern Popular Resistance stand on a tank in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden May 10, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

U.S. Official: Solution in Yemen Starts with Security before Politics

by Bader alQahtani and Mohammad Ali Mohsen | Oct 2, 2016 | Middle East

Jeddah, Aden- A high-ranking U.S. official told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that his country agrees it is necessary to reach an immediate cessation of fighting in Yemen, in addition to a comprehensive solution, which should be sequential in its security and political...