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...Ahmed denied that recent protests held outside MPs’ offices were intimidatory: “We’ve written to them, we’ve demanded X, Y, Z and they haven’t listened....
...“If they couldn’t get hold of the site, they got as close as possible.”...
...“The Axis of Resistance . . . aims to annihilate and wipe out Israel from existence,” said Abdul Majeed Awad, head of Hamas’s political and media relations office in Lebanon....
...“We believed we were going to die out there,” says Ahmed Khan, a 24-year-old, whose arm was broken during the failed attempt to cross the Channel....
...Ahmed Mehdi, a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, said the company had “made it clear that it cannot fund its net zero road map without access to low-cost and low-emission...
...“For operational security reasons, we didn’t go into the exact hour at which all US forces would leave Bagram,” John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, would confirm later....
...I asked my husband, has the government collapsed and we weren’t told?” says Habiba....
...To April 4, riyadhart.sa ‘Light upon Light’ runs to June 12 Letter in response to this article: Arts scene can’t hide Saudi Arabia’s rights record / From Isabel Scholes, Frankfurt, Germany...
...Abdul Salam Ahmed, an SDF representative in Beirut, said: “The cells will be revived and they’ll do military operations to save their prisoners....
...Until we see evidence of that we won’t know how important the appointment is.”...
...If there was a chance to move back into the Balfron tower, I wouldn’t say no.”...
...“These guys promised a lot, but of course they weren’t able to deliver,” said Saad Bin Ahmed, equity head at Arif Habib Limited, a brokerage firm....
...“You couldn’t be an investor in Iraq unless you’re fundamentally optimistic,” admits Grant Felgenhauer of Euphrates Advisors....
...Hulhumale had been the creation of Mr Yameen’s half-brother Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives as a dictator for 30 years....
...“People think women will buy low-end small cars with low margin but I don’t think that’s right,” says Ms Worthem. “We expect to see a big rise in the smaller end of luxury vehicles as well.”...
...“It isn’t — it’s Palestinian land, and they stole it. They want the land, but they don’t want me.”...
...“There’s lots of people now,” said Abdul Monnan, 80, a bearded Asian man wearing a long green thawb, the male Islamic garment. “It’s packed. The atmosphere is much better....
...It has sent ripples of fear through Croydon’s Kurdish community, according to Abdul Abdul Ahi, who — like Mr Ahmed — came to the UK from Iran when he was 17, and saw him on occasion at Middle East Shisha...
...Other hotels which aren’t at the trackside lose travellers, who stay away at that time. And generally, travel budgets, corporate budgets, are down.”...
...I don’t want to be responsible for something huge that I don’t understand, that I don’t want to work on, that keeps coming back to me. I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO....
...“It doesn’t serve the interests of any country in the Gulf, oil producer or not.”...
...An anguished Ms Ahmed says she is 100 per cent certain that he was abducted by the state. “I don’t know if he is alive or not,” she says quietly. “What can I do?”...
...Mr Ahmed, from Huddersfield, now backs a smaller number of businesses. He is still involved in an Asian restaurant chain, Abduls, he set up more than a decade ago with a school friend....
...They have found an unusual ally in Maan Abdul Salam, a long-time human rights activist from Damascus....
...“I don’t want to think about it or it will become too daunting. I am taking it bit by bit, like someone digging a tunnel to escape from prison,” she says....
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