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Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif arrived here Wednesday for a three-day official visit on the special invitation of Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Prime Minister received a very warm welcome as he alighted from his special aircraft at King Khalid Airport.
More than three years after U.S. Navy SEALs raided bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, it remains unclear whether Afridi knew he was working for the CIA when he led a hepatitis B vaccination campaign that helped U.S. agents learn where bin Laden was hiding.
Sources within and close to Nusra said that Qatar, which enjoys good relations with the group, is encouraging the group to go ahead with the move, which would give Nusra a boost in funding. The exercise could transform Nusra from a weakened militia group into a force capable of taking on Islamic State at a time when it is under pressure from bombing raids and advances by Kurdish and Iraqi military forces.
“I liken our historical moment to the situation that confronted the U.S. early in the Cold War, when it became obvious that the Soviet Union and others could build hydrogen bombs and the superpower competition showed worrying signs of instability,” Rogers said in his testimony.
"The bottom line here is that (there is) no deal to announce to anybody today, but very intense, hard work, some progress, but tough challenges yet to be resolved," the official said. "We expect that we (and the Iranians) will regroup bilaterally, with the European Union present as well, on the 15th of March, location to be confirmed but most likely Geneva."
The United States will not move its embassy to Aden, as some Persian Gulf countries have done, to avoid any suggestion that Washington accepts a de facto division of Yemen, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.
The campaign for Tikrit is a dress rehearsal for the real contest: The fight to recapture Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the extremists' biggest stronghold. But can a large-scale ground offensive alone succeed, without U.S.-led air support?
Netanyahu’s strategy is a bank shot, using congressional support for his hard line on the nuclear deal to leverage more sanctions on Iran that could sink the negotiations or cause Iran to walk away. He is also using the backing of Congress to try to burnish his credentials as a fierce defender of Israel’s rights and image in advance of March 17 elections.
Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s largest oil exporter, is in talks with banks to raise a $10 billion revolving credit facility at cheaper pricing than Exxon Mobil Corp., according to three people familiar with the matter.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund agreed to buy more than $1 billion worth of shares in South Korean steelmaker Posco’s engineering and construction unit.
