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CNN  —  Here’s a look at the life of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Birth date: 1935 Birth place: Safed, Palestine Marriage: Amina Abbas Children: Three sons Mazen (died in 2002), Yasser and Tareq Education: Damascus University, B.A.; Oriental College (in Moscow), Ph.D. His family left the British Mandate area Safed, Palestine, to live in Syria as refugees in 1948. Abbas laid floor tiles and taught elementary school before earning a law degree. Played an integral role in the forging of the Declaration of Principles, the historic Oslo Accords signed in 1993 by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak…

CNN — Here’s a look at the life of Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq. date of birth: [1945 place of birth: Iraq marriage: Thanaa Allawi (1987-present) children: three education: He studied medicine/neurology in Baghdad and London. religion: Shiite Muslim 1960s – He joined the Baath Party while studying at the College of Medicine in Baghdad. The seventies – He was responsible for Baath organizations in Europe when he broke away from Saddam Hussein’s regime and went into exile in London. 1978 – Surviving an assassination attempt by Hussein’s supporters. He was beaten with an ax and…

CNN  —  Here is a look at the January 2015 terror attacks in Paris. From January 7 to January 9, a total of 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher grocery store and the Paris suburb of Montrouge. Three suspects in the attacks were killed by police in separate standoffs. On December 16, 2020, a French court found guilty 14 accomplices of the French Islamist militants behind the attacks. The Charlie Hebdo magazine began publishing in 1970 with the goal of satirizing religion, politics, and other topics. Most employees came from the publication…