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Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi gestures during a news conference in Baghdad August 25, 2014. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud

Iraqi Forces Advance towards West Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 17, 2017 | Middle East

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday that Iraqi forces had begun “moving” against ISIS militants in western Mosul, an area the group still fully holds. He did not give details of exactly what actions Iraqi forces were undertaking on...

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A United Nations flag is seen in a boardroom in the Secretariat building during the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York September 25, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

UN: 2017 Global Economic Growth to Touch 2.7 Percent

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 17, 2017 | Business

The United Nations projects that the 2017 global economic growth will rise to 2.7 percent and 2.9 percent in 2018, up from 2016’s 2.2 percent. However, both Brexit and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tax policies could have adverse effects. On the other...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

China’s Xi Defends Trade as Beijing Seeks Bolder Global Role

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 17, 2017 | Technology

Chinese President Xi Jinping voiced on Tuesday a vigorous defense of globalization and free trade and urged the world to “say no to protectionism,” delivering a strong rebuke to isolationist tendencies that helped fuel Donald Trump’s presidential...

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George Caleb Bingham’s “The Verdict of the People” from 1855, which historians say depicts public reaction to a likely proslavery candidate’s election victory, was chosen as the painting that will be displayed behind the president’s table at the inaugural luncheon. (Saint Louis Art Museum)

The Controversy behind the Painting That Will Hang at Trump’s Inaugural Luncheon

by Philip Kennicott | Jan 17, 2017 | World

Last week, a little-known tradition of modern presidential inaugurations brought unwanted attention to the St. Louis Art Museum. Since Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, an American painting has served as a backdrop during the inaugural luncheon, at which...

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Bubble trouble: ‘Dimitri Payet’s public utterances and body language, from summer onwards, have increasingly made it clear he had a roving eye.’ Photograph: Jason Mitchell/IPS/Rex/Shutterstock

Dimitri Payet and Co Cross a Line with Their Striking Self-Indulgence

by Daniel Taylor | Jan 17, 2017 | Sports

There is a passage in one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s latest books that seems deliberately designed to chop West Ham down to size and no doubt, as intended, would have pricked a few egos in the way he does better than anyone. What, Ferguson wanted to know, was “the West...