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Egypt: Sinai Monastery Attack Kills One, Injures Four, AFP

Egypt: Sinai Monastery Attack Kills One, Injures Four

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | Middle East

An attack on security forces near Egypt’s St Catherine’s Monastery in south Sinai has killed at least one person and injured four, state television said on Tuesday. Security sources said it was carried out by gunmen on a police checkpoint several hundred...

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File photo: The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California August 18, 2004. (REUTERS/Clay McLachlan)

Google Earth Re-Invented for New Era

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Google on Tuesday launched a re-imagined version of its free Earth mapping service, weaving in storytelling and artificial intelligence and freeing it from apps. “This is our gift to the world,” Google Earth director Rebecca Moore said while giving AFP an...

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French arrests over ‘pre-election attack plot’
Members of the French RAID police unit found weapons at the suspects’ homes, AFP

France Detains Two Attack Plotters Targeting Elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | World

Elite police agents made a qualitative arrest against two men in Marseille Tuesday on suspicion of planning an attack just days before the first round of France’s presidential election. The two suspects were captured with bomb-making materials and guns found in...

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David Moyes feels he is paying for predecessors’ recruitment mistakes at Sunderland, has been unlucky with injuries and wants time to conduct root and branch reform. Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters

Sunderland Fans Expose David Moyes’ Decline and Could Spark His Fall

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | Sports

This time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked. It has been quite a fall from...

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Newly appointed National Security Adviser Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as U.S. President Donald Trump makes the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida U.S. February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The US War against ISIS

by Eli Lake | Apr 18, 2017 | Opinion

Listening to his campaign rhetoric, the last thing you would expect Donald Trump to do as president would be to escalate a ground war in the Middle East. He won the Republican nomination last year by campaigning against both George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and...