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In this Wednesday, April 16, 2014 file photo, passengers walk past the medical quarantine area showing information sheets for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus at the arrival section of Manila’s International Airport in Paranaque, south of Manila. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Saudi Arabia announces jump in new cases of deadly MERS virus

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 21, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Reuters—Saudi Arabia confirmed 20 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Saturday and Sunday, adding up to 49 infections in six days, a sudden increase of a disease that kills about a third of the people infected and has no cure. MERS, a...

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A picture taken on April 26, 2013 shows Abu Tarek, a 74-year-old retired army officer, trying on a homemade gas-mask assembled using a plastic bottle, coal, cotton, gauze, cola, and cardboard, for protection against chemical weapons, in Syria’s northern Latakia province. (AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA)

UN reports points to chemical weapons use in Syria

by Caroline Akoum | Jun 5, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—UN investigators said yesterday that they had “reasonable grounds” to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in Syria, without specifying by which side. A report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria made...