Asharq Al-Awsat Editorial

Editorial desk and wire-service reports (AFP, Reuters, AP) as published in the Asharq Al-Awsat English Edition. This archive preserves the original text (2005–2017); attribution appears in the article dateline where provided by the source.

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Japan has One Vending Machine for Every 25 People

London – In Japan, they are like traffic lights – they’re everywhere. Nearly 5 million “jido hambaiki” – vending machines – populate the world’s third-largest economy, one machine for every 25 people. The high-tech country has the highest density of such machines. Nearly half of them dispense

Wild Elephant Kills Four in Southern India

New Delhi, Kathmandu – Officials say four people including a teenager and two women were killed when a wild elephant ran amok in southern India early Friday. District official S. Madhuranthangi said that the elephant strayed into a residential area on the outskirts of the Coimbatore city from

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Qatar…Test for Trump’s Anti-Terror Plan

Will this duplicitous nation cut off terrorist financing, or coordinate with the Pentagon, or both? For a brief moment it looked like President Donald Trump had done it. He got the leaders of six Gulf nations to sign a communique pledging to eradicate the financing of extremists. The timing happened