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After 23 Years in Prison, Wrongly Convicted US Man Freed

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 15, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Washington – Washington – Local US news outlets reported, Friday, the release of a man who was imprisoned for 23 years after being wrongly convicted of a double murder in Kansas city. Lamonte McIntyre was 17 when he was first arrested. He later stood for...

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Modest Share for MENA in Global Economic Recovery

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 15, 2017 | Business

Cairo – The global economic recovery that has started mid-2016 is gaining mounting power with the accelerating growth in Europe, Japan, China and the US, a by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revealed. IMF warned of possible discontinuity of the global...

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Libyan General Khalifa Haftar speaking during his meeting with the Tunisian president on September 18, 2017 in Tunisia. (AFP)

Haftar: Failure of Dialogue Compels Libyans to Determine Fate

by Jamal Jawhar | Oct 15, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), considered that the ongoing dialogue in Tunis is the only solution for the Libyan problems and in case the dialogue fails to find political solutions then doors will be wide-open for...

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Qatar Freezes Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Thani’s Bank Accounts

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 15, 2017 | Middle East

Dammam – Qatar has reportedly frozen all assets belonging to Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani, one of the most Qatari prominent figures to speak out against the government in the ongoing crisis involving Doha. Sheikh Al Thani revealed on Saturday on his Twitter...

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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi are seen during a welcoming ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, January 7, 2017. Hakan Goktepe/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

US Working to Defuse Tensions in Kirkuk

by Said Abdul Razzak | Oct 15, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara, Washington, Irbil – With the end of the 48-hour deadline given by Baghdad for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces to withdraw from the oil fields in Kirkuk, Washington decided to intervene with an attempt to defuse a possible confrontation between the two...