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EGG HARBOR, NJ – AUGUST 28: Low-income residents select free bread and produce at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey on August 28, 2015 in Egg Harbor, New Jersey. The food bank has seen an 11 percent increase in food distribution in Atlantic County since four of Atlantic City’s major casinos closed in 2014, laying of 8,000 people. The closures brought Atlantic City’s unemployment rate to more than 11 percent, double the national average. The mass unemployment has produced the highest foreclosure rate of any metropolitan U.S. area, with 1 out of 113 homes now in foreclosure in Atlantic County. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The US Is the Sick Man of the Developed World

by Justin Fox | Aug 12, 2017 | Opinion

What do the economists at the International Monetary Fund see when they look at the US? An economy in the midst of a long expansion (“its third longest expansion since 1850”), with “persistently strong” job growth, “subdued”...

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Weapons and ammunition seized by Kuwaiti authorities after their discovery of the al-Abdali cell in 2015. (KUNA)

Kuwait Arrests 12 Convicted Members of Abdali Cells Linked to ‘Hezbollah,’ Iran

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 12, 2017 | Middle East

Kuwait announced on Saturday that it had arrested 12 convicted members of the al-Abdali terrorist cell. The members have ties to Iran and Lebanon’s “Hezbollah,” which is also backed by Tehran. The suspects were arrested after a weeks-long manhunt, announced the...

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Relatives mourn the death of a child at Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur district of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh on August 11, 2017. (AFP)

60 Children Die in India Hospital in Less than a Week

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 12, 2017 | World

Oxygen shortages at a northern Indian hospital have left dozens of children dead, officials announced on Saturday. They said that at least 60 children were killed at the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh state in the past five days. They...

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Myanmar deploys hundreds of soldiers in the northern Rakhine state amid fears of a new wave of violence. (AFP)

Myanmar Deploys Hundreds of Troops in Rakhine State amid UN Alarm

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 12, 2017 | World

Myanmar has deployed hundreds of troops in the volatile Rakhine state amid concerns by the United Nations that the development would pave the way for more violence in the region. Rakhine has been gripped by violence since October last year when gunmen attacked police...

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Kenyan police chase protesters in the Mathare slum in Nairobi. (AFP)

3 Killed in Kenya over Presidential Elections Result

by Thaer Abbas | Aug 12, 2017 | World

Opposition protests that erupted after the election victory of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta have turned violent in the African country, with three people killed on Saturday. The latest deaths mean nine people have been killed in election-related violence since...