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Reuters file photo shows FPM founder Michel Aoun arriving at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, near Beirut, to attend a session of the national dialogue

Lebanon Readies for Monday’s Presidential Election

by Caroline Akoum | Oct 27, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-Preparations are underway to welcome at Baabda Palace Lebanon’s new president who will certainly be Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun after a more than two-year vacuum at the country’s top post. Aoun will most likely be elected during a parliament...

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, speaks during a news conference. Associated Press

Lagarde: Further Reforms Needed in GCC Countries to Face Low Oil Prices

by Abdul Hadi Habtor | Oct 27, 2016 | Business

Riyadh–Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that Saudi Arabia has started a great change in economic policy to respond to low oil prices. She added that the Saudis have started a fiscal adjustment, with expenditures...

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shake hands (image: Reuters,
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Billionaires Back Clinton with USD70 Millions

by Heba El Koudsy | Oct 27, 2016 | World

Washington – Everyone knows that elections around the world are manipulated by money and interests, and that the spending capacity of any candidate is the main factor that leads his electoral campaign toward victory. The U.S. presidential elections significantly...

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Militants take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in this June 30, 2014, file photo (Reuters/Stringer/File)

Pentagon Prepares to Launch Raqqa Offensive with Kurdish Support

by Heba El Koudsy | Oct 27, 2016 | Middle East

Washington–U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and his British counterpart Michael Fallon announced on Wednesday that the battle to liberate the ISIS-held Syrian city of Raqqa would be launched in the coming weeks. Carter, who arrived in Brussels on Wednesday to...

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Robin Shahini at his graduation ceremony in San Diego. AP

Washington ‘Troubled’ by Sentence of American Citizen in Iran

by Heba El Koudsy | Oct 27, 2016 | World

Washington-The United States has said that it was “troubled” by Iran’s 18-year sentence of an American citizen as the State Department urged Tehran to cease arbitrary detentions. “We are troubled by reports that Robin or Reza Shahini, a person...