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Cameron Stresses Britain’s Suffering from Iranian Terrorism

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 15, 2016 | World

Dubai- Former director of the CIA and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the year ahead will continue to be dominated by terrorist groups bent on disrupting global politics and economies, speaking at the Arab Strategy Forum on Wednesday in Dubai....

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Arab Strategy Forum: Slow World Growth in 2017

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 14, 2016 | Business, Middle East

Dubai – A new report released by the Arab Strategy Forum said that a number of local drivers would stall reforms across the world’s major economies. The Arab Strategy Forum was launched in 2001 under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,...

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Opinion: Impressions from a Gulf Visit

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Dec 29, 2015 | Opinion

The famous quote “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain among others may not sound true now as it used to in the past; statistics, as a science, has advanced a lot since then. Thus, it may be...