DAVOS: Middle East oil economies, and especially their booming sovereign wealth funds, are well placed to ride out a global fall in executive confidence, according to a senior partner of global
RIYADH: Global sukuk issuances are expected to continue declining in 2023 to about $150 billion compared to $155.8 billion in 2022 and $170.4 billion in 2021, according to the latest report released
CAIRO: Egypt’s government will start selling discounted bread to people not enrolled in its bread subsidy program as it battles accelerating inflation, the supply minister said on Monday. People will
CAIRO: Egypt’s government will start selling discounted bread to people not enrolled in its bread subsidy program as it battles accelerating inflation, the supply minister said on Monday.People will
KASINDI, Congo: Daesh extremists claimed responsibility for a bombing of a church in eastern Congo as authorities said Monday that the toll from Sunday’s attack had risen to at least 14 dead.The
DUBAI: Egyptian actress, model and presenter Enjy Kiwan announced this week that she has joined the cast of “Paradox Effect,” the action thriller directed by US Emmy-nominated director and producer
TUNIS: Opposition parties and others angry at Tunisia’s economic crisis and the president’s increasingly authoritarian drift are planning to march through the capital on Saturday to mark 12 years
The next 10 years will be absolutely critical in shaping the world order of the 21st century. Why? World orders are the results of geopolitical shifts. And in the next decade, we will probably see
BEIRUT: Activists gathered in front of a police station in the Lebanese capital Saturday to protest the arrest of the brother of a victim of a deadly 2020 blast, witnesses said. William Noun — whose
BEIJING: China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December following complaints the government was failing to release data about the status of the
JERUSALEM: Israel’s outgoing army chief on Friday warned against plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s new coalition to grant more control to pro-settler lawmakers and make other changes to the Israeli
China is currently focused on realizing the Second Centenary Goal of becoming a great modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts
It was just last month that Morocco were the deserved toast of the World Cup after reaching the semifinals and pushing then reigning champions France all the way before bowing out. It was the best
JERUSALEM: Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday invited his Turkish counterpart President Tayyip Erdogan to visit the country as he received Ankara’s new ambassador in another token of the
RIYADH: Investments in Saudi startups grew by 72 percent to a record high of SR3.701 billion ($987 million) in 2022, according to a report. According to the “2022 Saudi Arabia Venture Capital
ANKARA: Russia and Ukraine have agreed on an exchange of 40 prisoners of war each, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said on Wednesday after meeting her Ukrainian counterpart
DUBAI: Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi is to make his 24H Series debut at this weekend’s Hankook 24H Dubai race as Dubai Autodrome prepares to host the 18th edition of the
NEW YORK: Flights are being delayed at multiple locations across the United States after a computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration. At around 6:30 Eastern, there were 760 delays
DUBAI: The US Navy seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of Oman it believes came from Iran and were bound for Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday.
PARIS: The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said Tuesday. Average
BEIRUT: Lebanese designer Salim Azzam, loved by Jordan’s Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, started his brand to revive the skills of the artisans in Mount Lebanon and give them international exposure.
Women have made huge global strides in securing greater rights, respect and opportunities, despite theocrats in states such as Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq doing their utmost to reverse this
CAIRO: Suez Canal maritime traffic was on Monday returning to normal after a cargo vessel that ran aground was refloated. Egyptian authorities running the vital waterway said one of its rescue teams
Just over 10 weeks ago, Rishi Sunak undertook an improbable journey from an audience with King Charles III to entering one of the most famous doors in the world. In becoming Britain’s third prime