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Study: A Billion People Suffer from High Blood Pressure

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 16, 2016 | Health, Lifestyle & Culture

The number of people with high blood pressure has almost doubled in 40 years to over 1.1 billion worldwide, researchers said on Wednesday. “High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for stroke and heart disease, and kills around 7.5 million people worldwide...

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Stephen K. Bannon at a Donald J. Trump rally in New Hampshire last month. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Trump’s Choice of Stephen Bannon is Nod to Anti-Washington Base

by Jeremy Peters | Nov 16, 2016 | World

Washington- In naming Stephen K. Bannon to a senior White House post, President-elect Donald J. Trump has elevated the hard-right nationalist movement that Mr. Bannon has nurtured for years from the fringes of American politics to its very heart, a remarkable shift...

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Abdelhamid Abaaoud is thought to have planned and executed the Paris attacks. – Reuters

Report on Ties between Abaaoud, Failed Attack on European Train

by Abdullah Mustafa | Nov 16, 2016 | World

Brussels- One year after the Paris attacks, a suicide bomber’s mobile phone was found underneath a pile of paperwork at a Belgian police station. Officers seized a phone and a USB stick belonging to Ibrahim Abdulsalam during a drug raid in Brussels in February 2015....

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Moroccan Foreign Minister and COP22 President Salaheddine Mezouar speaks at the World Climate Change Conference 2016 (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, November 6, 2016. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Moroccan Foreign Minister: Paris Agreement is Irreversible

by Hatim Betioui | Nov 16, 2016 | World

Marrakech- Salaheddine Mezouar, the Moroccan Foreign Minister and President of the 22nd U.N. conference on climate change (COP22), has said that “COP22 is taking place in an African country and the challenges found in Africa are plenty which urges Marrakesh conference...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a ceremony for veterans and relatives of victims in Ankara on October 27, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN

Turkey Appoints Ambassador to Israel in Reciprocal Move

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 16, 2016 | Middle East

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed a foreign policy advisor to the prime minister as ambassador to Israel, sealing the normalization of diplomatic relations after a partial rupture in 2010. The appointment reciprocated a move by the Israelis a day...