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Demonstrators chant during a rally outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. The rally, organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities, highlighted human rights abuses and called for democratic change in Iran. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Sekaanvand Faces Imminent Execution in Iran after “Unfair Trial”

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 11, 2016 | World

A human rights group urged the Iranian judiciary on Tuesday to repeal a death sentence against a 22-year-old woman accused of murdering her husband, who she said had repeatedly abused her. Zeinab Sekaanvand was arrested in February 2012 and convicted of her...

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Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih talks during the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, October 10, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister: Non-OPEC Countries Willing to Help Balance Oil Market

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 11, 2016 | Business

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih told reporters that he had touched on signs that countries outside OPEC were willing to contribute to balancing the oil market. Minister Falih will not be attending the meetings on Wednesday between OPEC and...

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Militias Respond to Saleh – Houthi Calls for More Killing in Taiz

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 11, 2016 | Middle East

After Yemen’s ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh made an unrestrained speech in which he called for an intensification of the ongoing fighting, Houthi-Saleh militias attacked the city of Taiz yesterday with various types of weapons and fiercely and intensely...

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Al-Bashir Announces That the Ceasefire Will be Extended to the End of the Year

by Mustafa Sirri | Oct 11, 2016 | Middle East

President Omar Al-Bashir announced that the ceasefire in Sudan will be extended until the end of the year in the areas of Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan. He also announced that a national mechanism would be formed to draft a permanent constitution for the...

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Women in ISIS | Source: Reuters

ISIS Recruitment between Western, Arab Women

by Nidaa Abou Ali | Oct 11, 2016 | Features

Riyadh- Pressures imposed on terrorist organizations like ISIS and the capture of a large number of its members has forced a sort of qualitative change in its strategy, like appointing women in leading positions, allowing them to hold arms and execute bombings and...