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A displaced woman carries her child in a building that is used as a temporary shelter in Makhmour area, southeast of Mosul, Iraq, March 28, 2016. Reuters

Child Labor Doubles in Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad-The United Nations childrens’ agency UNICEF said that more than half a million Iraqi children are estimated to be at work rather than at school as violence and displacement hurt the income of millions of families. “I used to go to school and work...

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Syrians walk amid debris as they return to the Juret Al-Shayah district of the central city of Homs on May 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/STR)

Family of Slain U.S. Reporter Sues Syrian Regime

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2016 | Middle East

London-Relatives of Marie Colvin, a veteran U.S. war reporter who died in 2012 in an artillery barrage in Syria, have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Syrian regime, The New York Times reported. Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the...

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Frankenstein’s Monster is Still Alive

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

London-“Frankenstein” has become a global symbol to describe all human creations that lack ethics and control. One hundred years passed on “Frankenstein”, the novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft, which had been transformed into a classic literary work and republished...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Jerusalem July 10, 2016 REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Egypt’s Foreign Minister in Surprise Visit to Israel

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Jul 11, 2016 | Middle East

Cairo-Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called on Sunday during the first visit of its kind to Tel Aviv in nine years, on reviving the stalled peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis. “It is no longer acceptable to claim that the status quo...