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A clerk gets ready to receive voters inside a polling station in Christmas, Florida on November 8, 2016,AP

The Latest Developments in U.S. Elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 8, 2016 | World

Associated Press (AP)- Billionaire Warren Buffett is devoting part of Election Day to get-out-the-vote efforts — as he helps drive voters to the polls on a trolley he hired. The longtime Democrat had promised to help boost turnout at a Hillary Clinton rally in Omaha...

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American Detained by Houthis For 18 Months is Released

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 8, 2016 | Middle East

The US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the release of Wallead Yusuf Pitts Luqman, the third American citizen to be detained in Yemen since last October, after he was kidnapped by Houthis in Yemen and held for more than a year and a half. Kerry said in a...

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Europe and the US Participate in Attack on Raqqa

by Nazeer Rida | Nov 8, 2016 | Middle East

A senior Kurdish source who is informed about the international campaign to fight ISIS in Raqqa told Asharq Al-Awsat that American, French and German military advisers are stationed in the Syrian city of Ayn Al-Arab (Kobani), north east Aleppo, in order to “coordinate...

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UN Pledges to Investigate US Airstrikes on Civilians in Afghanistan

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 8, 2016 | World

The United Nations has pledged to conduct an investigation into US airstrikes carried out during an operation against the Taliban in the Kunduz province of Afghanistan. 32 civilians were killed in the troubled province last week as a result, and the UN said that any...

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Police officers secure the area after an explosion in front of the city’s police headquarters in Gaziantep, Turkey May 1, 2016. Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS

Turkey Puts 36 Suspects on Trial over Ankara Train Station Bombing

by Saeed Abdelrazek | Nov 8, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara-The trial of 36 suspected ISIS group militants has begun on Monday in Ankara for Oct. 10, 2015 double suicide bombings that killed more than 100 people in the capital just over a year in the deadliest attack in Turkey. The bombing outside Ankara’s main train...