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Amnesty Accuses Houthis of Recruiting Children for Fighting

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

London- Amnesty International revealed in a statement Houthi militia’s involvement in recruiting children and forcing them to fight in battlefields. The statement issued by the organization said that new evidence has emerged of how the Houthi armed group is...

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VIENNA – JULY 3: File picture taken on July 3, 2001 showing the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria. OPEC said 12 April 2002 that it is concerned by the situation in Venezuela because the country might boost its oil output in order to increase funds available to the state. (Photo by: BARBARA GINDL/AFP/Getty Images)

UAE: Oil Prices Start Recovering

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 28, 2017 | Business

Abu Dhabi- UAE Governor for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Ahmed Mohammed al-Kaabi, who is also the assistant under-secretary for the oil and gas industry and mineral resources at the Ministry of Energy, said that crude oil prices have...

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Japanese Film Week Kicks Off in Egypt

by Mohamed Ajam | Feb 28, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo-The Japan Foundation’s Cairo office has opened the Japanese Film Week 2017 in its 2th edition, entitled “Taste of Life”, at the Artistic Creative Centre in the Cairo Opera House, held in cooperation with the Egypt Cultural Development Fund. Running till March 2,...

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Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul

Mass Grave South of Mosul: A Tragic Scene of a Thousand Corpses

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

Athbah (South Mosul)- A large depression in the ground, called Khasfah (an Arabic word for a crack or a hole that opens up in the ground) in the desert south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, is believed to be where the dead bodies of ISIS victims are stacked,...

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President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

A Divided White House Still Offers Little Guidance on Replacing Obamacare

by Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein | Feb 28, 2017 | World

A meeting Friday afternoon between President Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his former rival in the GOP primaries, had no set agenda. But Kasich came armed with one anyway: his hope to blunt drastic changes to the nation’s health-care system envisioned by some...