Corruption lays the seeds of sexual harassment, a real estate mafia, monopolies, the high cost of living and bribes. By Amr Okasha in the Egyptian opposition daily Al-Wafd

India sends a rocket ship to space; our missiles take the opposite direction.
By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

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