Middle East

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, more than doubled the amount of Russian fuel oil it imported in the second quarter to feed power stations to meet summer ...

President Joe Biden will discuss energy supply, human rights, and security cooperation in Saudi Arabia on Friday on a trip designed to reset the U.S. relationship with a country ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday will sign a joint agreement pledging to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon on the second ...

The head of powerful armed group Hezbollah warned on Wednesday that “no one” would be allowed to operate in maritime oil and gas fields if Lebanon was barred from its “...

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday, kicking off a high-stakes trip to the Middle East dominated by efforts to persuade Gulf allies to pump more oil ...

Egypt’s fuel pricing committee in a quarterly review on Wednesday raised domestic fuel prices by 0.50 Egyptian pounds for 80-octane, 92 octane petrol, and diesel while 95-octane petrol was raised by 1 ...

The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite US sanctions and a company ban on doing business there, a Reuters investigation has ...

Israel on Sunday opted against a Tel Aviv public offering of its financially strapped postal service, instead putting up all of Israel Post Co for sale to a private investor ...

Flag carrier El Al Israel Airlines (ELAL.TA) reached a collective agreement with its pilots to restore their salaries to pre-COVID pandemic levels and end months of labour action that ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday it had held productive discussions during a staff visit to Egypt on economic policies and reforms to be supported by an extended ...

Israel and Turkey on Thursday signed a new bilateral civil aviation agreement, their first since 1951, as part of a recent warming of diplomatic ties, allowing Israeli carriers to resume flights ...

Israel’s economic growth is expected to slow to 4.9 per cent in 2022 after an 8.2 per cent spurt last year, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. It expects higher inflation and ...

Europe’s Airbus (AIR.PA) has raised the stakes in a dispute with Qatar Airways over damage to the painted surface of long-haul A350 jets by revoking the contract for ...

Mecca’s crowded streets provided Saudi merchant Dhikra Faqihi with much-needed relief as pilgrims returned to the annual haj after two years of pandemic-related disruption, with many rushing to buy ...

Cypriot Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides highlighted Cyprus’ role as a pillar of stability for both Europe and the Middle East, during his address at the Economist conference in Athens. Speaking ...

France urged Israel’s new prime minister, Yair Lapid, on Tuesday to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, but Lapid played down such prospects, citing rightist elements in his caretaker ...

Egypt’s Suez Canal revenue hit a record high of $7 billion in the financial year to June 30, up 20.7 per cent from the previous year, Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabea said ...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that he will press French President Emmanuel Macron on the Iranian nuclear negotiations and urge a tougher Lebanese stance against Tehran-backed Hezbollah. ...

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, but independent investigators could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet ...

Israel said on Sunday it would test a bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist to determine whether one of its soldiers shot her and said a U.S. observer would ...

wo women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt’s Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Saturday it had sent three unarmed drones towards an Israeli Mediterranean gas rig, which the Israeli military said it had intercepted. The Iranian-backed Shi’ite ...

An Iranian-flagged tanker seized by Greece in April, part of whose cargo was confiscated by the United States, was being towed to the port of Piraeus on Saturday, Greek coast ...

Lebanon’s untamed financial crisis is gathering new menace as it heads into a fourth year, with political paralysis dampening hope of reforms that could unlock foreign support and stave ...