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This 2006 colorized scanning electron micrograph image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the O157:H7 strain of the E. coli bacteria. (Janice Carr/CDC via AP)


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Saudi medical staff leave the emergency department at a hospital in the center of the Saudi capital Riyadh on April 8, 2014.(AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE)


Opinion: Keep Calm and Carry On

Opinion: Keep Calm and Carry On

The more people there are, the more problems they have. We live in a time of peak population saturation; the land is full of people wherever you go. According to estimates, the world population broke the 1 billion mark in 1804. In the 20th century that number more...
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Piles of garbage lie uncollected on the streets of Aleppo. (Asharq Al-Awsat photo)


Disease Spreads as Aleppo Becomes a Landfill

Disease Spreads as Aleppo Becomes a Landfill

Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Choked, chaotic Aleppo: two years ago this was the mercantile capital of Syria, now it is a city made medieval by war. Since last summer there has been no grid power in the neighborhoods controlled by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), and as the sun...