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Egyptian performance star Sherihan. (El Adel Group)

Producer Jamal El Adl: Sherihan Will Make a Comeback with Major Show

by Soha al-Sharqawi | May 12, 2017 | Entertainment

Cairo – Despite nearly a 15-year absence from the entertainment scene, Egypt’s Sherihan has not lost her star power, which seems to grow brighter day after day. The legend of Egyptian entertainment, as she is called, will stage a comeback after the majority of...

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Turkish President Erdogan and Donald Trump (AFP)

Erdogan Says Trump’s Kurdish Arms Move Harms Ties

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 12, 2017 | Middle East

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday his visit to the United States next week could mark a “new beginning” in relations between the two countries although he repeated Ankara’s criticism of the Trump Administration’s decision to arm...

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Soldiers guard a car after a bombing next to a convoy of deputy chairman of the Pakistan Senate, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, in Mastung, Pakistan May 12, 2017. (Reuters)

At Least 25 Killed in Pakistan ISIS Blast Targeting Top Senator

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 12, 2017 | World

At least 25 people were killed when a powerful blast rocked Pakistan’s Balochistan on Friday in what officials said was an attack against one of the country’s top senators. The ISIS extremist group later claimed responsibility for the bombing. The group’s Amaq...

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FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/File Photo

Iran, Change of Attitude

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 12, 2017 | Opinion

As the US President complained to Russian Foreign minister over Iran’s attitude and the importance of suppressing it, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was publicly warning citizens that “they want to change Iran’s attitude and this means changing our...

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Disgruntled soldiers in Ivory Coast mutiny over bonuses demands. (AFP)

Ivory Coast Soldiers Revolt over Bonuses despite Apology to President

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 12, 2017 | World

Protests by some disgruntled Ivory Coast soldiers broke out in the commercial capital Abidjan on Friday hours after they began in the country’s second largest city over a demand for bonuses. Gunfire had erupted in several locations in the Ivory Coast as anger spread...