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A combination picture shows portraits of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, who will run in the second round of the 2017 French presidential election. (Reuters)

French Presidential Elections: Hitting Below the Belt

by Michel Abu Najm | Apr 25, 2017 | World

Paris – Electoral campaigns for the second round of presidential elections, which will take place on May 7, kicked off Monday, witnessing an exchange of “strikes below the belt” between parties supporting centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron on one side and far-right...

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A Yemeni woman cooks in a make-shift shelter at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons on the outskirts of Sana’a on April 15, 2017. (AFP)

Yemen: 20 Senior Members from Saleh’s Party Turn against Him

by Abdul Hadi Habtor and Saeed al-Abyad | Apr 25, 2017 | Middle East

Jeddah, Riyadh – A senior member from the General People’s Congress Party (GPD) said that he and 19 other party officials joined the “legitimacy” after refusing the directions of the party’s leader, ousted president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Issam Sharim, head...

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Syrian opposition fighters hold their weapons as they prepare to board a bus to leave the last rebel-held neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs province, Syria, Monday, April 24, 2017. (SANA via AP)

Syrian Regime Races Experts to Khan Sheikhoun

by Caroline Akoum and Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 25, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut, London – While Syrian regime forces appeared on Monday to be racing with experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to Khan Sheikhoun to hide the remaining proof of their chemical attack on the town early this month,...