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Saudi Arabia to Issue New Release of its Currency

by Shuja Al-Baqmi | Dec 9, 2016 | Business

Riyadh – Saudi Arabia will officially reveal next Tuesday the sixth release of its banknotes and coins for the era of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques amid definite information saying that the metal Riyal will replace the paper one....

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U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed speaks during a press conference at the information ministry in Kuwait City on May 15, 2016 (AFP Photo/Yasser al-Zayyat)

Yemen’s Ambassador to Washington: Recent U.N. Roadmap Creates New Crises

by Arafat Madabish | Dec 9, 2016 | Interviews, Middle East

Aden – Yemen’s Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, said that the new peace roadmap, which was presented by the U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen, “contains several details that were not approved” by the country’s different political factions. In an...

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(FILE PHOTO) A Yemeni boy loyal to the Houthi rebels AFP

Houthi, Saleh Militias Recruited 40 Children to Fight In Al-Mahweet

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 9, 2016 | Middle East

Taiz – The Human Rights organization in al-Mahweet governorate, northwest of Sana’a, revealed on Thursday that rebel militias had committed 575 violations during the past month of November. The non-governmental local civil organization uncovered in a report that...

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Kadyrov (center) and other Chechen top commanders at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny, Russia/ AP File Photo/ Musa Sadulayev

Reports: Russia Sent Chechen Forces to Syria with Claim to Protect Hmeimim Base

by Taha Abed alWahed | Dec 9, 2016 | World

Moscow – Under the claim of protecting its air base in the Hmeimim airport in Syria’s Latakia province, Russian newspaper quoted sources at the Defense Ministry saying Moscow has decided to dispatch two units of the Vostok and Zapad military battalions to Syria....

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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri (R) chats with Lebanese Christian politician and leader of the Marada movement Suleiman Franjieh (L) as Head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc Mohamed Raad (2nd L), MP Assaad Hardan (C) and Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri listen to them during a new session of the national dialogue between political leaders at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, near Beirut April 15, 2010. (Photo: REUTERS/Dalati Nohra)

Lebanon: Disagreements between Political Parties Threaten Government Birth

by Caroline Akoum | Dec 9, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut – Lebanese political parties have issued conflicting statements about the expected date of the new government’s formation, as major obstacles are still hindering Prime Minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri’s mission, with the insistence of some blocs of having...