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...Ahmed Al-Mismari, spokesman for the warlord Khalifa Haftar, who controls the eastern part of Libya that includes Derna, said the disaster was “completely unexpected”, despite meteorological warnings of possible...
...“The visit of both the Saudis and the Omanis aims to discuss the final details of the truce extension agreement, which is expected to be announced very soon,” said Ahmed Nagi, the Crisis Group’s senior Yemen...
...Ahmed, who works for Save the Children, described his life under bombardment after air strikes damaged his house....
...Additional reporting by Max Seddon in Riga, Heba Saleh in Cairo, Andres Schipani in Lima, Ciara Nugent in Buenos Aires, Samer Al-Atrush in Dubai and Mercedes Ruehl in Singapore...
...Additional reporting by Neri Zilber, James Politi, Samer Al-Atrush and Heba Saleh...
...It’s not just a proxy war,” said Ahmed Nagi, Yemen analyst at Crisis Group think-tank....
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...Tourism minister Ahmed Al-Khateeb said the aim was to lift the sector’s contribution to gross domestic product from 3 per cent to 10 per cent by 2030, and for tourism to provide one in 10 jobs in the country...
...Additional reporting by Heba Saleh in Cairo, Samer Al-Atrush in Riyadh and Simeon Kerr in Dubai...
...“There are plenty of opportunities, you just need to want to work,” said Ahmed, who drives an Uber and is saving up to start his own restaurant franchise....
...Ahmed Majrashi, a retired military man who works in a hotel, said he was driving when he received a call to inform him that his mortgage application was accepted for a property in Yanbu....
...Abu Ahmed, who owns an old store that sells sweet drinks, said he looked forward to the development. In the meantime, his son, like many other young men, has moved to Riyadh, seeking employment....
...Two senior aides suspected of involvement in Khashoggi’s killing, Prince Mohammed’s aide Saud al-Qahtani and deputy intelligence chief Ahmed Asiri, were cleared of wrongdoing....
...Additional reporting by Laura Pitel in Ankara and Samer Al-Atrush in Riyadh...
...“Before the war, nobody had heard of this Samer Foz,” said Rana, a Damascus business owner....
...Also facing criminal charges for corruption are Mr Sharif’s two sons Hussain and Hassan Nawaz, his daughter Maryam and her husband Muhammad Safdar Awan....
...“Maryam Nawaz is young and speaks well....
...“The army did not have to put its own people on this team,” says Ahmed Rashid, the Pakistani writer and commentator....
...Mr Sharif has long groomed his daughter Maryam as his political heir, but she has been tarnished by the scandal....
...Maryam Bilal, artist liaison representative at Athr, has co-organised the gallery’s current exhibition And Along Came Polyester (until April 4), which features works by five women from the Gulf....
...Ultimately, the answer to Islamic fundamentalism lies in the hands of the Iranian people and Iran’s organised opposition, which is led by a Muslim woman, Maryam Rajavi....
...“It’s impossible to make changes now in Iraq,” says Samer Salem, a 30-year-old employee at a gift shop in the ancient Bab al-Sharji market of central Baghdad....
...There’s less incentive to return,” says Samer Abboud, an economy expert with the Carnegie Middle East Center think-tank. “I think the social fabric of the industrial landscape has been ruptured....
...Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force pilot who served as civil aviation minister and briefly as premier under the previous regime, has been placed on a “watch list” of those to be halted, issued a court summons...
...But the most significant fact about MEK is its degeneration into a personality cult around leader Maryam Rajavi....
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