Middle East

Saudi Arabia has registered a budget surplus of nearly 78 billion riyals ($21 billion) in the second quarter of 2022, the finance ministry said on Thursday, an almost 50 per cent rise from a ...

Lebanon’s top Christian cleric on Thursday denounced his country’s government for failing to bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast, marking the huge explosion’s ...

Saudi Arabia has set up an agency to promote investment in the country, a key goal of an ambitious economic reform agenda, the investment minister and state media said on ...

Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product rose by 11.8 per cent in the second quarter compared with the same period in 2021, according to initial government estimates on Sunday, as the world’...

Iran has responded to top European Union diplomat Josep Borrell’s proposal aimed at salvaging Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, and seeks a swift conclusion to negotiations, the ...

Part of the Beirut port grain silos collapsed on Sunday afternoon, sending a large cloud of dust and smoke into the sky, a Reuters witness said, nearly two years after ...

Tunisia would seem to have everything going for it. Average salaries are the third highest in all of Africa’s fifty countries, just behind Morocco and South Africa. Literacy is 97 ...

Two people were killed in the grenade explosion that shook Kabul’s main cricket stadium during a domestic league match on Friday, police said on Saturday, updating their previous casualty ...

Rescuers searched for the missing in Iran on Friday after landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 53 people, officials said. Mehdi Valipour, head of emergency operations at ...

Dubai’s red-hot property market surged in the first half of the year as investors piled in, with Russians among the top five buyers as the emirate benefits from an ...

Mohamed Abu Khodr had been waiting for hours outside a Beirut bakery in hopes of buying two bags of subsidised bread he needs to feed his family. But there was ...

Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company Unilever Plc (ULVR.L) did not reach an out-of-court agreement on a dispute over the sale of the ice cream maker’s ...

Egypt has cancelled contracts for a total of 240,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat that were booked by its state grains buyer for February and March delivery but never loaded due to ...

The Central Bank of Qatar said on Wednesday it raised its main deposit rate by 75 basis points (bps) to 3 per cent, moving in tandem with the US Federal Reserve’s ...

The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that Egypt needed to make “decisive progress” on fiscal and structural reform as Cairo seeks a new round of support from the fund. ...

Lebanon’s parliament on Tuesday passed long-awaited amendments to a banking secrecy law, according to a Reuters witness, in the first step towards reforms required by the International Monetary Fund (...

Greece and Saudi Arabia will sign a deal in renewable energy and discuss other investments and security, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Tuesday in a meeting with ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday there is no reason for high-level talks with Ankara’s estranged rival Egypt not to take place, as its efforts to mend ties ...

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants in a pre-dawn gun battle in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death ...

Rival factions fought each other in Tripoli overnight and into Friday, killing 13 people in the Libyan capital’s worst clashes for two years as a political standoff festers. Fighters exchanged ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Greece on July 26 to meet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek foreign ministry said on Friday, in his first visit to an ...

An Israeli missile attack on Friday near Damascus killed three soldiers and wounded seven more, Syrian state media reported, in what a war monitor said was the 17th Israeli attack ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Tehran on Tuesday for talks with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Kremlin leader’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since ...

The governments of France and the United Arab Emirates signed on Monday a strategic agreement to cooperate in the energy sector, the French government said. The partnership aimed to identify ...