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Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

× Visitors carry their dogs in pet strollers and a bag at Interpets, an international fair for pet related products and services, in Tokyo, Japan, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon 1/4 The Lava flows from an eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Di Marco) 2/4 The sun sets over outlying islands as a plane prepares to land on the resort island of Phuket, Thailand on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Adam Schrec...

Thursday, 1 April, 2021 - 08:30 North Macedonia players embrace at full time after their shock 2-1 win over Germany. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian Sport North Macedonia stunned Germany with a 2-1 World Cup qualifying victory in Duisburg, as Eljif Elmas’s 85th-minute winner earned the Balkan country what is surely their greatest ever win. Germany dominated the first half with 70% possession, but althoug...

A A pandemic may have no silver linings, but Covid-19 has brought one change I hope will last: obsessive cleaning. Not that wiping down surfaces has done much to stop the virus. Coronavirus transmission from contaminated surfaces is “really minor,” Joseph Allen, a Harvard expert on health and safety in buildings, told me. Spraying places like airports and movie theaters with gallons of disinfectant might make people feel safer, but “at this point, it’s clear that we’re overcleani...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Thursday, 1 April, 2021 - 07:30 The Egyptian and Sudanese Air Forces carrying out a number of intensive training activities Wednesday (Egyptian Army) Cairo - Mohammed Abdo Hassanein, Marwa Sabri Egypt and Sudan received support from a number of Arab countries regarding the dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The regional support came following recent statements by Egypt’s President Abdel Fa...

Thursday, 1 April, 2021 - 06:00 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the UN Human Rights Council on February 28, 2018 in Geneva (Fabrice Coffrini, AFP) Moscow - Raed Jabr Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Wednesday of the consequences of dividing Syria if Washington continues to encourage separatism in the war-torn country. Speaking at a special session of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s M...

Thursday, 1 April, 2021 - 05:30 A Jordanian woman casts her ballot at a polling station for local and municipal elections in Amman, Jordan. (Reuters/File) Amman - Mohammed Kheir Rawashdeh The Jordanian Cabinet decided on Wednesday to dissolve municipal and local councils as well as the council of the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM). It also decided to set up ad hoc committees to run the affairs of municipalities and the GAM coun...

Thursday, 1 April, 2021 - 14:00 The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flutters in front of their headquarters in Vienna, Austria March 4, 2019. (Reuters) Asharq Al-Awsat Iran has begun enriching uranium with a fourth cascade, or cluster, of advanced IR-2m machines at its underground Natanz plant, a report by the UN atomic watchdog showed, in a further breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. It was th...