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...But in the closing minutes, the cleric’s voice grew louder as he threatened Israel for its “very dangerous” assassination of his ally Saleh al-Arouri, carried out in the Lebanese militant group’s own backyard...
...“We’re a political football,” al-Qadiri said. “In Lebanon, Hizbollah needs to remind the people that it needs its weapons to defend them....
...The call was to give them ammunition and organise them under the command of the Somali army,” says Hussein Sheikh-Ali, the national security adviser....
...This is the first major assault by al-Shabaab since former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud returned to office as president in early June....
...If Biden wants to save Abdullah al-Howaiti, Hassan al-Maliki and others like them, he must say so unequivocally....
...“In Somalia sometimes things cook for a while and then explode out of nowhere,” said Abduikadir Hassan Samatar, a Guriel community leader....
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader and linchpin, this week blasted the pragmatic government of President Hassan Rouhani that negotiated the 2015 nuclear deal....
...Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has accused Judge Tarek Bitar of being politicised and demanded his dismissal....
...Pro-Hizbollah newspaper Al Akhbar reported last week that one tanker had arrived in Syria, and its contents would be trucked to Lebanon....
...At the top of a lighthouse in a deserted headland, Ali Hassan Ali points across the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, to war-ravaged Yemen. Then, behind him, to war-torn Ethiopia....
...It even looked as though the theocrats around Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, wanted a quick nuclear deal so that any concessions would be blamed on Hassan Rouhani, the outgoing pragmatic president...
...With centrist Hassan Rouhani set to step down as president after two terms, Zarif is seen as a possible reformist candidate in crucial June 18 presidential elections....
...The challenge against Sawan was brought by Ghazi Zaiter, former public works and transportation minister, and Ali Hassan Khalil, former finance minister....
...The judge will also question two former ministers of public works and transportation, Ghazi Zaiter and Yussef Fenianos, and ex-finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil....
...The official said the Saudi delegation was led by Khalid bin Ali al-Humaidan, the intelligence chief, adding that another round of talks had been scheduled for next week....
...“Pakistan is positioning itself as an intermediary between the west and Afghanistan, it’s not immediately clear that anyone is buying that,” says Hassan Javid, associate professor of sociology at Lahore...
...Additional reporting by Asmaa al-Omar in Istanbul....
...President Hassan Rouhani has said repeatedly that Iran has nothing to discuss, not even aid, until the US lifts the economic siege....
...Its latest expression, in the pragmatic centrism of President Hassan Rouhani, is a bust....
...Those arrested include Mahienour al-Masry, a well known human rights defender, as well as Hassan Nafea and Hazem Hosni, two outspoken political scientists....
...Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric, on Monday condemned the American strikes and said Iraqi authorities must work to prevent the country from becoming a “battleground to settle regional...
...These included Mahienour al-Masry, a well-known human rights lawyer, Khaled Daoud, a journalist and former leader of the Dostour opposition party, and Hassan Nafea and Hazem Hosni, two outspoken politics...
...Ali captioned the Instagram story: “One big happy family.” The older Makhlouf was first placed under sanctions in 2008....
...Three days later, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, firmly ruled out any talks....
...Khalid al-Falih, Saudi energy minister, said on Saturday that there “must be a rapid and decisive response to the threat of energy supplies”....
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