by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 22, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
European disease and safety experts warned on Wednesday that superbug bacteria found in humans, animals and food pose an “alarming” threat to public and animal health having evolved to resist widely used antibiotics. A report by the European Food Safety...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 1, 2016 | Middle East
Nearly half a million residents of the city of Mosul in northern Iraq are facing a “catastrophic” situation due to the lack of drinking water and electricity. Clashes between Iraqi forces and ISIS fighters are also taking place in the city. The UN Humanitarian...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
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...
by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Mar 6, 2013 | Features
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...
