by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Malmo – When you wander in the Sweden Möllevången district, you may not quickly notice that the southern city is known as one of the international hot spots of organized crimes. Young women hold their babies’ carriages, and elderlies sit in the sun, while the...
by Hamza Mustafa | May 3, 2016 | Middle East
Baghdad- Amidst the rising political crisis in Iraq, Sadrist movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shi’ite cleric, managed to throw his Green Zone protesting supporters off guard by heading on Tuesday secretly to Tehran. Iraqi sourced confirmed that al-Sadr had left the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 23, 2014 | World
Rio De Janeiro, AP—A Rio de Janeiro slum erupted in violence late on Tuesday following the killing of a popular local figure, with angry residents setting fires and showering homemade explosives and glass bottles onto a busy avenue in the city’s main tourist...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 25, 2013 | World
Stockholm, Reuters—A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even though dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze. The...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 26, 2013 | World
Dhaka, Reuters—Bangladesh textile workers vented their anger on Friday, burning cars and clashing with police, as the death toll passed 300 following the collapse of a building housing factories that made low-cost garments for Western brands. Miraculously rescuers...
