Saudi Arabia’s GDP grows 8.8 per cent year-on-year in third quarter
Saudi Arabia’s economy grew by 8.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period a year earlier, mainly due to a sharp increase in oil-related activity, ...
Macron to travel to Qatar for World Cup semis against Morocco
French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Qatar to attend the World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco on Wednesday, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said on Sunday.
France, tournament ...
China’s Xi calls for oil trade in yuan at Gulf summit in Riyadh
President Xi Jinping told Gulf Arab leaders on Friday that China would work to buy oil and gas in yuan, a move that would support Beijing’s goal to establish ...
Netanyahu secures parliament majority, seeks more time to form government
Israel’s incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed up enough parties for a coalition with a parliamentary majority on Thursday but requested more time to present the new government, citing ...
Qatar probing death of a worker at World Cup training site
Qatar has launched a work safety investigation into the death of a Filipino, officials said on Thursday, following reports that the man died while working at a training site during ...
Iran holds first execution over anti-government protests
Iran hanged a man on Thursday convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the first such ...
Egypt inflation jumps to five-year high of 18.7 per cent in November
Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation rate surged to a five-year high of 18.7 per cent in November, closely matching analyst expectations, data from the statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Thursday.
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Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank raid
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians on Thursday during a pre-dawn raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in a wave of intensifying violence.
The Israeli military ...
Sister of Iran’s leader condemns his rule, urges Guards to disarm
A sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according ...
Lockheed Martin, Israel’s Rafael to develop laser weapon system
US weapons maker Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) and Israeli contractor Rafael have teamed up to create a high-energy laser weapon system, based on a technology already under development in Israel ...
‘There is no future’: Lebanon’s new poor face long-term stagnation
Unemployed and unable to support his family of four, Hussein Hamadeh, 51, now spends his days trying to find help to weather a protracted economic crisis that some Lebanese fear has ...
Egypt private sector shrinks in November after devaluation
Egypt’s non-oil private sector shrank in November at its sharpest rate since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, with a weaker currency weighing on the cost and ...
OPEC+ keeps steady policy amid weakening economy, Russian oil cap
OPEC+ agreed to stick to its oil output targets at a meeting on Sunday as the oil markets struggle to assess the impact of a slowing Chinese economy on demand ...
Protesters storm governor’s office in southern Syrian city, gunfire heard
Dozens of demonstrators angry over worsening economic conditions in Syria stormed the governor’s office in the southern city of Sweida on Sunday and set fire to parts of the ...
Syria resisting Russia’s efforts to broker Turkey summit, sources say
Syria is resisting Russian efforts to broker a summit with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, three sources said on Friday, after more than a decade of bitter enmity since the ...
Syria Kurds halt all joint ops with U.S.-led coalition after Turkish attacks
The Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed group that helped defeat Islamic State jihadists in Syria, has stopped all joint counter-terrorism operations as a result of Turkish bombardment on ...
Venezuelan oil exports flow using false documents, ships linked to Iran
When the supertanker Young Yong sailed to the Chinese port of Qingdao in September last year, it had quality certificates for its cargo stating it was transporting Malaysian crude oil, ...
Aramco discovers two new Saudi gas fields
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said Saudi Aramco had discovered two new natural gas fields, Awtad and AlDahna, in the country’s eastern region, state news agency SPA reported on ...
Islamic State says its leader was killed, names successor
Islamic State (IS) militant leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi was killed in fighting, its spokesman said in an audio message posted on an affiliated Telegram channel, another heavy blow to ...
Iran sentences four to death for ‘cooperating’ with Israeli intelligence
Four people were sentenced to death on Wednesday by Iran’s judiciary for allegedly cooperating with the Israeli intelligence service and committing kidnappings, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
The ...
Egypt’s economic growth at 4.4 per cent in Q1 of FY 2022/23 – cabinet
Egypt posted economic growth at 4.4 per cent in Q1 of the fiscal year 2022/23, a cabinet statement said on Monday.
The unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.4 per cent in Q1 against 7.2 ...
No booze? No problem for most fans at Qatar World Cup
Fans at the almost alcohol-free World Cup are ready to pay high prices for a beer, a few have tried to smuggle booze into stadiums but most simply accept that ...
Three Palestinians killed amid series of deadly West Bank clashes
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, in the latest in a months-long series of deadly clashes between security forces ...
Turkish forces nearly ready for a Syria ground operation
Turkey’s army needs just a few days to be ready for a ground incursion into northern Syria and such a decision may come at a cabinet meeting on Monday, ...