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This seven-bedroom house, called Springfield and built in 1855, sits on about five acres of property southwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland. The house is on the market for $1,209,000 (975,000 pounds). Credit: Rob Durston for The New York Times

Northern Ireland… A Gradual Comeback to Real Estate Market

by Alison Gregor | Dec 14, 2016 | Business

This seven-bedroom home, called Springfield, was built in 1855 in the Victorian style by a prominent family associated with the linen industry about 11 miles southwest of Belfast, Northern Ireland. “It is one of the last linen houses remaining in private ownership,”...

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Opinion: When All News Is ‘Fake,’ Whom Do We Trust?

by Ruth Marcus | Dec 14, 2016 | Opinion

After post-truth comes all-fake. The election of Donald Trump has seen the flowering of the post-truth landscape. Emotion outranks fact; believing makes it so. We are all Tinker Bell now. Clap if you believe in voter fraud. Clap if you doubt a human role in climate...

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How to Make this Stock-Market Rally Last

by Mohamed A. El-Erian | Dec 14, 2016 | Opinion

The outcome of the Italian referendum last week added to the political, economic and financial uncertainty facing Europe, the world’s largest economic region. Nonetheless, global equity markets shrugged off the turbulence even more quickly than they overcame the shock...

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Brett McGurk, the United States’ envoy to the coalition against ISIS. Reuters

Brett McGurk: ‘Baghdadi is Hiding, We Cannot Confirm his Death’

by Heba El Koudsy | Dec 14, 2016 | World

Washington- Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS at the U.S. Department of State Brett McGurk addressed reporters at the White House shortly after meeting with President Obama and other national security officials about the ongoing...

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Opinion: The Trip to Corfu

by Samir Atallah | Dec 14, 2016 | Opinion

On the eve of World War II, the American writer Henry Miller decided to accept the invitation of his friend, the British writer Lawrence Durrell who wrote “The Alexandria Quartet”, to spend a period of time with him on the island of Corfu. The trip to Corfu, where he...