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Issue: 169 | Sun, August 12, 2018

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Saudi-Canadian relations take a tumble

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Climate change takes its toll on Lebanon’s millennium cedars

Iran playing for time as US sanctions start to bite

Tensions escalate between Ankara and Washington amid sanctions, war of words

Palestinians double down on right of return for refugees

Mamoon Alabbasi

Scientist’s death highlights Israel’s Syria dilemma

Simon Speakman Cordall

Opinion

Editorial

US

Fadwa Tlaib, an aunt of Rashida Tlaib points to a young Rashida in a 1987 picture with her mother Fatima and brother Nader at the family house in the West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Foqa. (AP)

The victory of Rashida Tlaib in the Detroit primary

Security

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters fly a drone in Afrin countryside in Syria. (Reuters)

Security concerns over drones

Interview

Ibtissam Azzaoui, a member of the Moroccan parliament from the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM). (Courtesy of Ibtissam Azzaoui)

Moroccan MP expects initiative to ‘build new reality based on reconciliation’

Lebanon

Colombian singer Shakira plants a cedar tree during her visit to Tannourine Cedars Reserve, in Tannourine, Lebanon July 13, 2018. (Reuters)

Climate change takes its toll on Lebanon’s millennium cedars

East|West

A win for democracy. A file picture of Rashida Tlaib outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. (AP)

Palestinian American poised to serve as first Muslim woman in US Congress

Egypt

History to the rescue. Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Enzo Milanesi (R) visits the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, on August 5. (AFP)

Egypt and Italy work to mend fences, Libya remains sticking point

Syria

A Syrian woman talks on a mobile phone next to a poster of President Bashar Assad with Arabic that reads, “Assad has Triumphed,” in Damascus. (AP)

Russia takes the initiative at Astana talks in Sochi

Culture

Under renewed threat. Algerian girls looks at graphic novels on display during the 10th Algiers International Comic Festival, last October. (AFP)

Salafists’ rise triggers concern in Algeria over cultural freedom