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People watch a television news showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on April 5, 2017. (AFP)

Trump is Right about North Korea

by David Ignatius | Aug 5, 2017 | Opinion

As President Trump nears the threshold of a military crisis with North Korea, he needs to sustain this early intuition — and not be driven into actions that may look tough but would leave every player worse off. The template hasn’t really changed from the Korean War...

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Soldiers patrol a highway near the Mare Complex slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP)

Brazil Troops Kick Off Crackdown against Gangs in Rio Slums

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 5, 2017 | World

Brazilian troops and police launched on Saturday an operation against gangs in the slums in Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to crackdown on mounting crime. Their main goal was to stop gangs behind a surge in brazen robberies of commercial trucks. Five favelas were...

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A picture taken on August 2, 2017 shows children of extremist fighters now living in the Libyan Red Crescent headquarters in Misrata, a town half-way between Sirte and Tripoli. (AFP)

Solace of Orphaned Children of Defeated Libya Extremists

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 5, 2017 | Features

Traumatized by war, their extremist parents either killed or missing, 28 children have found solace in each other at a Red Crescent center in Libya’s third city Misrata, said an Agence France Presse report on Friday. Whether they’re jumping up and down on...

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Tourists taking gondolas in front of the Ponte della Paglia in Venice. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times

Venice, Invaded by Tourists, Risks Becoming ‘Disneyland on the Sea’

by JASON HOROWITZ | Aug 5, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Venice- “You guys, just say ‘skooozy’ and walk through,” a young American woman commanded her friends, caught in one of the bottlenecks of tourist traffic that clog Venice’s narrow streets, choke its glorious squares and push the locals of this enchanting floating...

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Syrian refugee Tirej Brimo with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. (Twitter)

Four Countries later, One Syrian Refugee Achieves Dream of Becoming a Doctor

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 5, 2017 | Features

Ten years, four countries, four medical schools and 21 houses later Tirej Brimo, a refugee who fled the Syrian war, is finally a doctor, said a Reuters report on Friday. Having been just 10 months away from graduating with a medical degree at a university in Aleppo,...