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People inspect the damage at a site hit by an air strike in the rebel-held area of Seif al-Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

2 Videos of a Single City Tell a Tale of Aleppo’s Tragedy

by Ishaan Tharoor | Oct 7, 2016 | Middle East

Washington-Last week, two videos shot by drone of the same city showed the parallel universes that exist within Syria’s miserable, grinding civil war. The first that emerged was footage obtained by the Reuters news agency of the ravaged eastern Aleppo, where...

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The Mette Maersk, a Danish-flagged behemoth, at APM Terminals in Rotterdam. On a recent afternoon, 18,000 shipping containers were stacked like children’s blocks on a deck longer than three football fields, bearing auto parts, scrap metal and electronics. Credit Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

More Wealth, more Jobs, but not for Everyone

by Peter Goodman | Oct 7, 2016 | Business

Rotterdam, the Netherlands — For as long as ships have ventured across water, laborers like Patrick Duijzers have tied their fortunes to trade. He is a longshoreman here at Europe’s largest port. His wages put him solidly in the Dutch middle class: He has earned...

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Lagarde takes questions from the press at the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank group in Washington, U.S., Oct. 6, 2016/Reuters/ James Lawler Duggan

World Drenched in Debt, Major Powers the most Affected

by Sabri Najeh | Oct 7, 2016 | Business

Cairo-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released its fiscal report uncovering that global debt had increased to $152 trillion at the end of last year, a new record that countries must face. The report said that global public and private debts had reached 225...

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Opinion: How to Cuddle the Russian Bear

by Amir Taheri | Oct 7, 2016 | Opinion

Those following the development of Russo-Iranian relations may have been surprised by the current intensification of exchanges between the two neighbors. Since the start of this year, the two sides have exchanged no fewer than 40 high-level official visits including...