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Anthony Joshua celebrates after defeating Charles Martin to take the IBF Heavyweight title on April 9, 2016. (Getty Images)

Anthony Joshua: Being a Boxer you Have to Be a Man of the People

by Alex Clark | Apr 24, 2017 | Sports

London – Anthony Joshua has never lost a professional fight and he’s won every bout with a knock-out. But in two weeks he faces the fearsome Wladimir Klitschko, aka Dr. Steelhammer. Should he be nervous? Alex Clark meets the bricklayer turned boxer. Anthony...

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Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. KUNA

Coptic Pope Visits Kuwait to Inaugurate New Cathedral

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 24, 2017 | Middle East

Kuwait- Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah met with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Bayan Palace on Sunday. The two sides discussed the Palestinian Cause and bilateral relations and means of enhancing and developing them in all...

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Maajid Nawaz near Russell Square in London. Credit Sian Davey for The New York Times

Can a Former Extremist Become Moderate?

by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Apr 24, 2017 | World

London- I met Maajid Nawaz on a drizzly afternoon in March, tucked in a corner of the restaurant at the central London members’ club he uses as a satellite office. He was dabbing the chicken from his Caesar salad into a mound of yellow English mustard, which he...

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KSA: Tax Evasion is Low…We are Ready for Selectivity

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Apr 24, 2017 | Business

Riyadh- Acting Director-General of the General Authority of Zakat and Tax in Saudi Arabia Tareq al-Sadhan confirmed that tax evasion in Saudi Arabia is low; pointing out that the Kingdom is making efforts to maintain its tax revenues from foreign companies. Sadhan...

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Pyongyang, North Korea, April 17, 2017. Credit Damir Sagolj/Reuters

How to Defuse the Crisis with North Korea

by Joel S. Wit | Apr 24, 2017 | Opinion

WASHINGTON — I have been meeting with North Korean government officials for over two decades, first for almost 10 years as part of my job at the State Department, and then as a researcher working at universities and think tanks. This experience has made me familiar...