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Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali/Reuters

EU Extends Sanctions on Former Tunisian President, His Wife, Inner Circle

by Abdullah Mustafa | Jan 28, 2017 | Business

Brussels – The European Union (EU) announced on Friday the one-year extension of the economic sanctions imposed on the Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his wife, as well as 46 others. The approval was granted from EU without any discussions....

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Opinion: When Lebanese Democracy Talks

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jan 28, 2017 | Opinion

The controversy surrounding the election of Donald Trump as US president made many outside America have another look at how its electoral system works. However, controversy is surely not limited to America; it extends to Lebanon, a faraway small country that boasts...

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Members of Hashid Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fire towards Islamic State militant positions in west of Mosul, Iraq, December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

Signs of Skirmishes between Iraqi PMF Militants, Kurdish Peshmerga

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 28, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad, Irbil- Intense fighting broke out between the mostly Shi’ite Popular Mobilization forces (PMF) and Kurdish Peshmerga militants based in west Sinjar, a city in Mosul in northern Iraq. This comes off as the first registered encounter between the two groups...

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Thousands of Iranians gathered for the funeral of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Reuters

Khamenei Mulling to Appoint Kermaniin to Replace Rafsanjani

by Adel al-Salmi | Jan 28, 2017 | World

London- It is likely that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will appoint cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermaniin to replace former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the leadership of Expediency Discernment Council, informed Iranian sources...

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U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order he said would impose tighter vetting to prevent foreign terrorists from entering the United States at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

UN Agencies Urge Trump to Allow Refugee Entry

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 28, 2017 | World

Two United Nations agencies called on the Trump administration on Saturday to keep on offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, describing its resettlement program as vital. The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration...