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Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 11:15 A general view of Jerusalems old city shows the Dome of the Rock in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, October 25, 2015. REUTERS/Amir Cohen Tel Aviv - Asharq Al-Awsat Despite the hostile political rhetoric that the Israeli right adopts towards the Palestinians and its expansion of Jewish settlements, a new opinion poll showed a growing support for a “tw...

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 09:15 A model of ready-built factories in Saudi Arabia (Asharq Al-Awsat) Asharq Al-Awsat Investments in ready-built factories and industrial land plots increased by nearly 200 percent and 21 percent, respectively, in 2020, revealed the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON). MODON succeeded in raising investments in ready-built factories to more than SAR600 million ($160 mi...

A How is it that auto companies spend so much money and there is such vague disclosure on where it’s going? Or how their ambitious projects are progressing? Investors should be pushing accounting standards boards and companies to give them more. With the onset of electric cars and autonomous vehicles, companies are increasing their focus on technology and technical know-how over the traditional nuts and bolts of putting vehicles together. But it’s hard to see this in their financial st...

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 09:30 A woman washes dishes in her kitchen as she uses a portable electric light due to a power cut, in Beirut, Lebanon July 6, 2020. Picture taken July 6, 2020. Reuters Asharq Al-Awsat Lebanon is battling its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. The national currency is in freefall, while poverty and unemployment are on the rise. Here are some numbers: Plummeting pound The Lebanese poun...

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 12:30 Ousted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir. (AFP file photo) Khartoum - Asharq Al-Awsat Sudan asked for help from Interpol to arrest the Palestinian Hamas movement’s financial official in the country. Maher Aref Abu Jawad, who manages the movement’s investments in Sudan, and two of his associates are wanted for charges related to terrorist financing and money laundering, reported Bloomberg Asharq. ...

× A boy slides down a muddy bank in pouring rain at King Edward Park in Newcastle, Sunday, March 21, 2021. (AAP Image/Darren Pateman) 1/4 A view of Lake Atitlan at sunset during the spring equinox, from San Antonio Palopo, Solola, Guatemala, 20 March 2021. EPA/Esteban Biba 2/4 A State Emergency Service rescue team uses an inflatable raft to bring a local resident to safety from a flooded home as the state of New South Wales experiences widespread flooding and severe weather, in Sydney, Austral...

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 06:45 Benny Zee, a scientist from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, demonstrates retinal eye scanning technology used for early detection of autism, during an interview with Reuters in Hong Kong, China 29 January, 2021. Reuters Hong Kong - Asharq Al-Awsat A Hong Kong scientist has developed a method to use artificial intelligence to scan retinas of children as young as six to detect early autism or t...

× A boy slides down a muddy bank in pouring rain at King Edward Park in Newcastle, Sunday, March 21, 2021. (AAP Image/Darren Pateman) 1/4 A view of Lake Atitlan at sunset during the spring equinox, from San Antonio Palopo, Solola, Guatemala, 20 March 2021. EPA/Esteban Biba 2/4 A State Emergency Service rescue team uses an inflatable raft to bring a local resident to safety from a flooded home as the state of New South Wales experiences widespread flooding and severe weather, in Sydney, Austral...

× A boy slides down a muddy bank in pouring rain at King Edward Park in Newcastle, Sunday, March 21, 2021. (AAP Image/Darren Pateman) 1/4 A view of Lake Atitlan at sunset during the spring equinox, from San Antonio Palopo, Solola, Guatemala, 20 March 2021. EPA/Esteban Biba 2/4 A State Emergency Service rescue team uses an inflatable raft to bring a local resident to safety from a flooded home as the state of New South Wales experiences widespread flooding and severe weather, in Sydney, Austral...

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 10:15 People gather outside the new Salt government hospital in the city of Salt, Jordan March 13, 2021. (Reuters) Amman - Mohammed Khair al-Rawashdeh Jordanian security authorities continued to arrest protesters, who defied the curfew, to express their anger over an incident at a public hospital that claimed the lives of nine Covid-19 patients. The security services forcibly dispersed a number of sit-i...