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The Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

Here’s How Trump could Succeed

by Philip Churm | Dec 17, 2016 | Opinion

On Fox News on Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump lamented that those seeking government permits sometimes “are waiting in line for 15 years,” sometimes only to get rejected in the end, and vowed to speed up the process. To succeed, he’ll need a new approach to...

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Damage from the explosion inside Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is seen inside the cathedral in Cairo, Egypt December 11, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Egyptian Laws to Face ‘Sedition Fatwas’

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Dec 17, 2016 | Middle East

Cairo – Egypt’s Parliament is expected to issue new laws to face the “Sheikhs of Sedition” and the fatwas issued to incite hatred and discrimination on religious basis. Parliamentarian sources said on Friday, “Several deputies had presented draft laws to...

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Buses are seen during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held neighborhoods in the embattled city of Aleppo on December 15, 2016. (AFP)

Putin Seeks New Reference for “Post-Aleppo” Negotiations

by Taha Abdel-Wahed, Nazeer Rida, Caroline Akoum | Dec 17, 2016 | Middle East, World

Moscow, Beirut – Moscow seemed unenthusiastic, unlike its allies, to start a battle in Idlib following Aleppo. And while all parties were eager to discover what step Iranian militias and the so-called Hezbollah would take the day following the invasion of...

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FILE – In this Aug. 22 2015 file photo, members of the police forensics team take part in an investigation next to a Thalys train on the platform at Arras train station, northern France. The main suspect in the case of a high-speed train attack thwarted by three Americans last year in northern France will be questioned by counter-terrorism judges Wednesday Dec. 14, 2016 in Paris. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Suspect Says ISIS Ordered 2015 High-Speed Train Attack in France

by James McAuley | Dec 17, 2016 | World

PARIS — The main suspect in the August 2015 attack on a high-speed train in northern France was under orders from the same ISIS terrorist cell that orchestrated the Paris attacks in November 2015, his lawyer said Thursday. Ayoub El Khazzani, 26, a Moroccan citizen who...

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Civil Defense members work at a site of an explosion in Beirut in 2014. Photo: Reuters

Warnings on Return of Assassinations to Lebanon over Aleppo Developments

by Wajdi Al-Aridi | Dec 17, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- More than one political party has expressed fear over the return of the series of bombings, mainly assassinations, which have targeted Lebanon in the past. A March 14 coalition lawmaker told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that he has been warned by a top security...