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Iran Elections: Where an Old KIA
Beats a Mercedes-Benz

Meir Javedanfar for Al-Monitor

Iran’s Guardian Council nixes both former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and Rahim Meshai, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's acolyte and adviser.

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Erdoğan’ın değişimi Suriye politikasına nasıl yansımalı?

KADRİ GÜRSEL for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse

Türkiye Başbakanı Cenevre süreci hakkındaki görüşünün değişip geliştiğini söylüyor. Şimdi Ankara’nın “askeri çözüm”, “cihadistlere destek” ve “önce Esad gitmeli” ısrarını terk etmesi gerekecek

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Translated from As-Safir (Lebanon)

The Lebanese political class, which has been unable to reach a consensus on an electoral law and the formation of a new government, is undermining Lebanon's fragile unity. Read more »

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Women Struggle for Economic Role in Gaza

Hazem Balousha for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse

Despite high literacy and education rates among Palestinian women in Gaza, only one in ten can find employment.

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Tensions Rise as Barzani Closes
Syrian-Iraqi Kurdistan Border

Translated from Star (Turkey)

After Syrian KDP members are detained by the PYD, Iraqi Kurdistan President Barzani ordered the border closure between Syria and the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

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Ethiopian migrants sleep out in the open near a transit center where they wait to be repatriated, in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in April ordered a three-month delay to a crackdown on migrant workers which has led to thousands of deportations, to give foreigners in the kingdom a chance to sort out their papers. More than 200,000 foreigners have been deported from the country over the past few months.

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