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Opinion: The Cost of the Arab Spring is Half a Trillion Dollars

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 15, 2016 | Opinion

The UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia’s report stated that the Arab Spring led to a net loss of $613.8 billion in economic activity in countries involved in it. This is equivalent to 6 per cent of the region’s GDP in the period between 2011...

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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus. AFP

Turkey Plans Granting Citizenship for Foreign Investors

by Said Abdul Razzak | Nov 15, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara- The Turkish government has put the finishing touches to a proposal to widen eligibility for Turkish citizenship in a bid to attract foreign investors, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday after the meeting of Turkey’s Cabinet of Ministers. Turkey...

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Founding Partner of Wermuth Asset Management Jochen Wermuth

Oil Demand Growth Could Fall below 1% by 2018

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 15, 2016 | Business

Dubai- Impact investment firm Wermuth Asset Management (WAM) said that regardless of whether oil prices rise around potential OPEC production-capping news, there is no long-term future for the hydrocarbon sector. “Solar power is now available at $3 cent/kWh, which is...

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Head of Syrian Regime Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, March 30. Reuters

Europe Imposes Sanctions on 50% of Assad’s Regime, Central Bank Governor

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 15, 2016 | Middle East, World

London- The European Union on Monday placed 17 of the 32 Syrian ministers plus the central bank governor on a sanctions blacklist targeting the regime of Head of Syrian Regime Bashar al-Assad over attacks on civilians. They face travel bans and asset freezes for...

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Tempers flare on both sides of Newcastle’s meeting with Manchester United at St James’ Park in March 1996. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

English Club Football has never Quite been the same since a momentous 1996

by Paul Wilson | Nov 15, 2016 | Sports

It is England v Scotland on Friday night in this, the 20th anniversary year of one of the more joyous occasions at Wembley, so nostalgia is perfectly permissible for Euro 96, when the hosts’ brand of uninhibited football was bettered only by some even less inhibited...