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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Dilemma of Investing in Stock Market

Individual stocks can be hazardous to your financial health. You may not want to hear that right now, with the stock market regularly hitting new highs. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index set another record on Wednesday after reaching a new high on Monday. It set records on two days the previ

STC Establishes Venture Capital Fund

Riyadh – Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has decided to form a $500 million venture capital fund, a move it said would develop digital innovation in the region. During a news conference in Riyadh on Thursday, STC CEO Khaled Biyari said that the company had first launched venture capital projects i

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Ties with Qatar Revealed in Bin Laden Documents

With the arrival of a new administration to the White House, Washington has decided to speak out against Qatar’s relations with terrorism in the Middle in a bid to calm the situation and control the growing terrorism in the world, reported Al-Arabiya.net on Friday. Qatari officials were warned about

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At Least 26 Dead in Attack on Copts in Egypt

Masked gunmen dressed in military uniforms attacked a group of Coptic Christians south of the Egyptian capital on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 26 others as they were driving to a monastery, medical sources and eyewitnesses said. The group was traveling in two buses and a small truck in Min

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Rouhani and the ‘As-If’ System

In traditional clerical schools in Iran and Iraq, one of the skills that aspirant mullahs learn is known as “shabih-khani ”. This is difficult to translate but, broadly speaking, it means “narrating as-if”. In other words, this is a primitive form of theater imitating life with a few broad strokes o

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3 Arrested over Jakarta Suicide Attack

Indonesia has arrested three suspects linked to Wednesday’s twin bus suicide bombings in the capital Jakarta that was claimed by the ISIS terrorist group, an official announced on Friday. The elite anti-terror squad working with regular police Thursday detained two men in Bandung on Java island and