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Chris Urmson, Director of the Self Driving Cars Project at Google, speaks to the media during a preview of Google’s prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California, U.S. on September 29, 2015. Reuters

Hitting 2 Million Mile Mark, Google Makes Progress on Self-Driving Cars

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 5, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Google’s self-driving vehicles are mastering complex situations on public roads, from cars going the wrong way to bicycles darting in front of traffic, as the technology company strives to win the high-profile race to achieve full vehicle automation, executives...

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Members of the Durban Metro police control crowds wanting to vote at a poling station in Inchanga township near Estcourt some 65 kilometres west of Durban on August 3, 2016.,AFP

Kenyan Election Commissioners Quit

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 5, 2016 | World

All members of Kenya’s election commission have resigned, the government said on Wednesday, after months of protests by the opposition which accused the body of bias that made it unfit to oversee elections due next August. The total number of commissioners who...

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Syrian pro-regime fighters patrol the Ramussa area south of the city of Aleppo, on September 21, 2016. ,AFP

Lavrov, Kerry Discuss Ukraine as France’s Ayrault Prepares to Push Syria U.N. Resolution

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 5, 2016 | Middle East, World

France’s Foreign Minister will be travelling to Russia and the United States on Thursday and Friday, hoping to persuade both sides to adopt a U.N. Security Council resolution to impose a ceasefire in Syria. More so, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and...

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Libyan consumers bear cost of conflict/Reuters

Chairman and CEO of Libyan Investment Authority: I Demand Continuity of Libyan Funds’ Immobilization

by Sabri Najeh | Oct 5, 2016 | Interviews

Cairo- AbdulMagid AbdulSalam Breish, Chairman and CEO of the Libyan Investment Authority in Tripoli, revealed to Asharq al-Awsat that several meetings were held with Tobruk LIA Chairman Fawzi Omran Farkash in the past few weeks. According to Breish, these discussions...

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Secretary-General of the Istiqlal Party Hamid Chabat- AFP

Istiqlal Sec-Gen: We Are the Alternative

by Latifa Al-Arosni | Oct 5, 2016 | Interviews

Fez – Hamid Chabat, Secretary General of Istiqlal Party, described the current polarity between the opposing party Authenticity and Modernity and Justice and Development as fake and imposed. Chabat presented his party as the alternative of both parties. Chabat, Former...