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Jan 13, 2025 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mike Isaac |Sheera Frenkel |Kate Conger |Jumah Boukleb
Last month, Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving. Over the next few weeks, Zuckerberg and his handpicked team discussed how to do that in Zoom meetings, conference calls and late-night group chats.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
english.aawsat.com | Jumah Boukleb |Amir Taheri |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed
Two years into the conflict that has been raging in the country, the war in Sudan has suddenly caught the eye of Western media. In Britain, “The Times” called it the "forgotten war." Oh God! Now, it is too little too late. Indeed, According to international aid organizations, Only after 150,000 people have died, millions have been displaced, and a famine similar to that seen in Ethiopia in the early 1980s looms, did Western media outlets remember the devastating war in Sudan.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb
For decades at least until the early days of the current century a saying attributed to a19th century vaudeville troupe was often used to assess the prevailing political mood in an imaginary “average America”: See how it plays in Peoria!I first heard the phrase in 1974 from Thomas Philip (Tip) O’Neil, the 47th Speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington DC.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb |Eyad Abu Shakra
Many people in Sudan, and of course outside the country, had not heard of the village of Seriha, in Al-Jazirah State (central Sudan), before the massacre it witnessed a few days ago, during the assault of the Rapid Support Forces. All kinds of crimes and human rights violations were committed during this attack, innocent civilians were murdered, detainees were executed in cold blood, and the elderly were tortured and humiliated.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb |Eyad Abu Shakra |Michael Crowley
Amid a pressing need for new arguments following the collapse of the theory that Hezbollah provides Lebanon with "protection" and "strength," a talking point is being echoed by those who defend this same party: The Lebanese did not build a state, and they did not do so because of sectarianism and the corruption and quota system it gave rise to. So long as this is the case, any and every action is excusable at the very least, and glorious at the very most.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Jumah Boukleb |Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Michael Crowley
The American people and the rest of the world will know which candidate will win the presidential election in just a few days. To an outside observer, it seems that the Earth has stopped turning in anticipation of the results of this election. Most of the reporting in the US on the November 5 elections suggests, in one way or another, that the electoral process might not be peaceful.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Nadim Koteich |Timothy L. O’Brien |Jumah Boukleb
It might be the first time the Iranian regime has found itself confronting so many complex and difficult questions since it was established in 1979. These wide-ranging questions pertain to everything from the nature of the regime and to its future, which is intrinsically linked to external factors- that is, Iran’s ability to maintain its influence, which recent shifts have left in peril.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Nassif Hitti |Jumah Boukleb |Eyad Abu Shakra
Last Saturday, the British daily "The Guardian" published a piece about "Israel's prime target." The question its Jerusalem correspondent Julian Borger poses is one that has been asked by many in a variety of countries: would killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar end the war in the Gaza Strip?
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Nadim Koteich |Timothy L. O’Brien |Jumah Boukleb |Dlawer Ala'Aldeen
US Presidential Envoy Amos Hochstein had not arrived in Tel Aviv to hold talks to dissuade Israel from expanding the war in the north when its Northern Command announced that it was recommending that “the Israeli army be allowed to create a buffer security zone in southern Lebanon."General Ori Gordin stated that "the conditions are favorable...
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Jumah Boukleb |Eyad Abu Shakra |Kristen Bellstrom |Sam Menassa
The world could not function without crude oil and its associated products. For consumers, it delivers gasoline, diesel and a host of other transportation fuels, and enables the development of plastics, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and much more. For producers, the revenues derived from this natural resource are vital for their economies and populations.
