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Bono, the musician, activist and investor, at a Senate meeting on Capitol Hill in April. He is a board member for a new social impact fund called Rise. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times

A New Fund Seeks Both Financial and Social Returns

by Andrew Ross Sorkin | Dec 24, 2016 | Business

“There is a lazy mindedness that we afford the do-gooders.” That was Bono, the musician turned activist turned investor, lamenting the pitfalls of what has become an increasingly fashionable form of financing: social impact investing. Just about every big Wall Street...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday. She spoke hours after Italian officials confirmed that police had shot dead Anis Amri. Photo: Hannibal Hanschke /Reuters

Italy: Berlin Attack Suspect Killed

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 24, 2016 | World

Rome, Berlin- Anis Amri, the lead suspect in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market, has been shot, according to the Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti. “The man killed was without a shadow of doubt Anis Amri,” Minniti said in a news conference....

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Ansari meets Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Friday/NNA

Iranian Official in Beirut to Inform Leaders about Russian-Turkish-Iranian Meeting

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 24, 2016 | Middle East, World

Beirut – The file of the Russian-Iranian-Turkish meeting was present during the visit of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari to Beirut, where he met on Friday with President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri. Ansari,...

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. – SPA

Saudi Crown Prince: Personnel Training is our Top Priority

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 24, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Jeddah- Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, said the Ministry of Interior accords top priority to the training of personnel. During the inspection of a trainer ship on Wednesday evening, which recently arrived in the Kingdom after...

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Tehran Worried after Drone Flies Near Khamenei Office

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 24, 2016 | World

London – Iranian authorities were worried on Friday after a drone flew near the office of the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Iran’s anti-aircraft forces extensively fired at the drone as it approached the Pasteur strategic area, where the...