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• Afghanistan
  As US draws curtain on combat role, resilient Taliban plans patient comeback

  Surrounded by scaffolding, a blue-domed mosque is nearing completion on a site where a cinema once stood.

• ECONOMY
  IMF raises Saudi economic growth forecast to 4.6 pct for 2014

  Saudi Arabia's economy is likely to grow 4.6 percent this year, more than previously estimated, helped by a robust performance of the private sector, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

• Putin
  The Malaysia Airlines crash is the end of Russia’s fairy tale

  Before there is any further discussion of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, it’s important that one point be made absolutely clear: This plane crash is a result of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, an operation deliberately designed to create legal, political and military chaos. Without this chaos, a surface-to-air missile would not have been fired at a passenger plane.

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• soudi
  UK terror convict used ‘sacrifice72’ e-mail id | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical Islamist cleric facing U.S. terrorism charges, sits while a picture of shoe bomber Richard Reid is seen on a computer screen (L) and Saajid Badat is questioned via teleconference in Manhattan federal court in New York in this artist's sketch on Monday. (Reuters)

• AQAP
  Air strikes in Yemen kill 40 al Qaeda militants in two days

  Air strikes in southern Yemen killed about 30 suspected al Qaeda members on Sunday, local tribal sources said, in the second day of strikes against militant targets in the country.

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