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Donald Trump, center, gives a fist bump to a pedestrian as he arrives for jury duty in New York, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. Trump was due to report for jury duty Monday in Manhattan. The front-runner said last week before a rally in New Hampshire that he would willingly take a break from the campaign trail to answer the summons. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Opinion: Radicalism Still Alive and Kicking

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 19, 2015 | Opinion

The early flourish of right-wing tycoon Donald Trump and veteran progressive Senator Bernie Sanders in the US Presidential primaries has been impressive. On the other side of the Atlantic, the “Old Labour” left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is creating shock waves in the race...

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Protesters demonstrate against the Conservative government in Whitehall, Westminster, London, on May 9, 2015, after David Cameron’s Conservative Party swept to power on Friday in Britain’s Parliamentary General Elections, winning an unexpected majority. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

“Winner takes all” vote system exaggerates Britain’s divisions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—David Cameron can thank Britain’s winner-takes-all voting system for handing him an outright majority in parliament on just 37 percent of the vote. But by boosting the power of Scottish nationalists, it has also intensified one of his biggest...

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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha return to 10 Downing Street in London on May 8, 2015.
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Cameron sweeps to unexpected triumph in British election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 8, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—Prime Minister David Cameron won an emphatic election victory in Britain, overturning predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep into office for another five years, with his Labour opponents in tatters. The sterling currency and...

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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron leaves after meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, on March 30, 2015. (Reuters/Anthony Devlin/pool)

UK’s Cameron meets Queen, starts knife-edge election campaign

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 30, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—Campaigning in Britain’s closest election in decades began on Monday after Prime Minister David Cameron met Queen Elizabeth II to tell her parliament had been dissolved, teeing up a fraught battle to govern a 2.8 trillion US dollar economy....

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Britain’s outgoing Foreign Secretary William Hague leaves 10 Downing Street in central London, on July 15, 2014. (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)

Cameron turns to women and anti-EUers in major ministerial shake-up

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 15, 2014 | World

London, Reuters—British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday pushed through his biggest government shake-up since coming to power in 2010, promoting women and Eurosceptics to senior roles ahead of a national election in May next year. In one surprise development,...