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Gang of Pakistani Doctors Selling Newborns Like a ‘Commodity’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 23, 2017 | World

Peshawar, London- Nusrat Khela Orakzai was delighted when she gave birth to a second baby boy. The Pakistani mother in her 30s thought her family was complete now that she had two sons and as many daughters. Her husband agreed. But the joy for the young couple from...

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File photo—Traders work at Egypt’s Stock Exchange in Cairo on December 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Egypt central bank tells banks to offer the euro at market rates

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 17, 2013 | Business

Cairo, Reuters—Egypt’s central bank has told banks to conform to international market rates in official trading of non-US dollar foreign currencies, a move that traders said could discourage banks from selling euros and boost black market trade. The...

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A man carries bread on wooden racks to be sold to customers in Cairo, on April 11, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Egypt Sells USD 600 mn to Import Basic Goods

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 15, 2013 | Business

Cairo, Reuters—Egypt’s central bank sold USD 600 million to banks in a special auction of foreign exchange on Sunday to pay for wheat, meat, cooking oil and other essential imports to a country struggling with a currency crisis. The size of the auction—15 times...

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, looks at the monkey which allegedly rode an Iranian rocket into space, held by an unidentified technician, while director of Iran’s space agency Hamid Fazeli looks on. (AP Photo/Presidency Office, Arman Teimour)

What Happened to the Space Monkey?

by Adel Al Toraifi | Jan 30, 2013 | Opinion

For the past three years in Tehran’s Nasir Khusraw Street-where several licensed pharmacies compete to sell medicine-there has been a thriving black market trade in pharmaceuticals. Despite repeated campaigns launched by Iranian health bodies to eliminate this...