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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, shakes hands with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Saturday, March 18, 2017. (Lintao Zhang/Pool Photo via AP)

US, China to Cooperate on ‘Dangerous’ North Korea Situation

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 18, 2017 | World

The US and China pledged on Saturday to work together to try to get North Korea’s government to change its current course of pursuing nuclear and ballistic missile programs, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned the situation had reached a...

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More than 40 refugees dead in attack on boat off Yemen. AFP March 17, 2017.

40 Somali Refugees Killed off the Hodeida Port, Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 18, 2017 | Middle East

London – At least 40 people including women and children were killed aboard a boat carrying Somali refugees in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, officials said on Friday. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said 140 passengers were believed to have been aboard...

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Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheik Ahmed. (UN Photo/Elma Ocik)

UN Special Envoy Ends Europe Tour, Urges Economic and Political Assistance for Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 18, 2017 | Middle East

London- United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that Yemeni conflicting blocs have been presented with a comprehensive and well-balanced framework to achieve a settlement. Ould Cheikh’s framework addresses political and security concerns...

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A Palestinian woman looks on as she stands at a United Nations-run school sheltering Palestinians displaced by an Israeli ground offensive, that witnesses said was hit by Israeli shelling, in Jebalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Hamas Seeks New Political Era to Resolve Problems

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 18, 2017 | Features

Gaza – The Palestinian Hamas movement wants to usher in a new political era to overcome the regional challenges that began affecting it when its exiled leadership left Damascus in 2011. Hamas, which has run the Gaza Strip since June 2007, has in the past years...

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Saad Eddine El Othmani, minister for foreign affairs of Morocco, addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York September 30, 2013. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Moroccan King Appoints Othmani as Prime Minister

by Hatim Betioui | Mar 18, 2017 | Middle East

Rabat – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI appointed on Friday Saad Eddine El Othmani of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) as the country’s new prime minister and asked him to form a government. The king announced on Wednesday he would replace Abdelilah...