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Opinion: Trump, Iran and Mixing Issues

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 1, 2017 | Opinion

We have wasted many years by not differentiating between our interests and those of Iran and by not differentiating between true causes and fake ones. Iran’s regime has succeeded in exploiting our issues; the Palestinian issue and Arab and Muslim issues, and it...

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April 20, 2015: People queue to fill containers with water amid an acute shortage of clean drinking water in Sana’a. Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters

Bloody Struggle among Comrades in Aden

by Mounir al-Manawri | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East

Washington- CIA archive declassified documents on People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, previously known as South Yemen in the seventies and eighties of the past century. Any researcher specialized in Yemeni affairs will come to realize that this region was...

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Saudi capital Riyadh (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Saudi Arabia: 16 State Agencies Ready for Privatization

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 1, 2017 | Business

Riyadh– Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Center for Privatization of the Saudi Ministry of Economy and Planning Turki al-Hugail announced that 16 state institutions are ready to enter the first phase of the privatization program. The agencies were chosen...

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Former Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rafik Abdul Salam. KUNA

Former Tunisian FM: Only Libyans Can Solve their Country’s Political Crisis

by AlMunji alSaidani | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East

Tunisia- Former Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdul Salam, who is also a leader in Ennahda Party, revealed the role Tunisia and his political party have been playing in convincing Libyan parties of the necessity of reaching a political solution for their crisis....

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UNICEF representative in Yemen, Meritxell Relano, addresses a press conference in Sana’a, Yemen, January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

UNICEF: ‘63,000 Yemeni Children Died in 2016 from Malnutrition’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East

London- Yemen has lost a decade’s worth of gains in public health as a result of war and economic crisis, with an estimated 63,000 children dying last year of preventable causes often linked to malnutrition, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. About 3.3...