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Saudi King Salman (C) attends the inauguration ceremony of several energy projects in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, November 29, 2016. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Inaugurates USD34 Billion Projects at Ras Al-Khair

by Obaid Al-Suhaymi | Nov 30, 2016 | Business, Saudi Arabia

Ras Al-Khair- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman inaugurated a number of infrastructure, development and mining projects worth SAR130 billion (USD34.7 billion) at Ras Al-Khair. King Salman also inaugurated projects of Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu....

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Coal miners and their families holding campaign signs in support of Donald Trump in West Virginia, where Hillary Clinton was campaigning.
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The Populism Perplex

by Paul Krugman | Nov 30, 2016 | Opinion

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than two million, and she would probably be president-elect if the director of the F.B.I. hadn’t laid such a heavy thumb on the scales, just days before the election. But it shouldn’t even have been close; what put Donald...

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This undated image posted online on Aug. 31 by supporters of the ISIS shows Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the group’s spokesman and chief strategist, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike. (AP)

ISIS’s Second-in-Command Hid in Syria for Months. The Day he Stepped out, the U.S. was Waiting.

by Joby Warrick | Nov 30, 2016 | Features

For a man given to fiery rhetoric and long-winded sermons, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani became oddly quiet during his last summer as the chief spokesman for ISIS. The Syrian who exhorted thousands of young Muslims to don suicide belts appeared increasingly obsessed with his...

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Photo taken on Monday, August 15, 2016 shows a Russian TU-22M3 bomber stands on the tarmac at an airbase near Hamadan, Iran/ AP Photo

Iran Promotes again for its Hamadan Base…Moscow Stays Cautious

by Taha Abed alWahed | Nov 30, 2016 | World

Moscow- Iranian-Russian discussions about allowing Moscow to use the Hamadan airbase renewed on Tuesday a week after Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said Russia could use the airbase for its aerial campaign against terrorists in Syria – if the...

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Handout photo of Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries meeting in Riyadh. Photo: Reuters

Arab, Islamic Figures Reject Houthis ‘Government’

by Abdul Hadi Habtor and Sawsan Abu Hussein | Nov 30, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh – Cairo – The Gulf Cooperation Council member states strongly rejected Tuesday’s announcement by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to form a “National Salvation Government”. GCC countries stressed that such measure was an evidence of the rebels’ unwillingness to resume...