Bank holdups snowball in Lebanon as depositors demand their own money
Five Lebanese banks were held up by depositors seeking access to their own money frozen in the banking system on Friday, in a spiralling spate of holdups this week spurred ...
Israel to reprimand Chile for snubbing its new ambassador to Santiago
A diplomatic tussle intensified on Friday after Chile’s president put off accepting the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador to Santiago over the killing in the occupied West Bank ...
Lebanon parliament postpones budget talks, slowing IMF reform checklist
Lebanon’s parliament on Friday suspended talks on the 2022 budget after a walk-out by lawmakers sent attendance below quorum, further delaying efforts to complete requirements to access IMF funds to ...
Israel annual inflation dips to 4.6 per cent in August after topping 5 per cent in July
Israel’s annual consumer price index (CPI) of inflation dipped to a 4.6 per cent rate in August, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday, easing from a 14-year high ...
Just how bad is Lebanon’s economic crisis?
Savers held up two banks in Lebanon on Wednesday to demand access to their own deposits frozen in the country’s paralysed financial system, underlining desperation among citizens unable to ...
Israeli-Palestinian violence simmers in West Bank with raids, clashes
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager on Thursday during clashes in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest in a string of deadly incidents that have ...
Depositors hold up two Lebanese banks to grab their own money
Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked during a national financial meltdown.
One woman ...
Majority of fans want FIFA to compensate Qatar’s migrant workers – Amnesty
A majority of football fans from 15 countries would support FIFA compensating migrant workers in Qatar for human rights violations during the country’s preparations for the 2022 World Cup, Amnesty International ...
Two Palestinian gunmen, Israeli army officer killed in West Bank clash
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen on Wednesday in a clash near the boundary with the occupied West Bank in which an army officer was also killed, a military ...
Long lines and lack of water mar Qatar World Cup stadium trial
“Stop! Can’t you see the metro station is full? Stop!” a frazzled supervisor shouted as green-vested marshals linked arms to contain thousands of fans streaming from the stadium that ...
Lebanon central bank stops providing dollars for gasoline imports
Lebanon’s central bank said it has entirely ceased providing dollars for gasoline imports in a move that will likely lead to higher and more volatile prices as well as ...
Iran says ready for nuclear cooperation but threatens it can hit Israeli cities with drones
Iran said on Monday it was ready to continue cooperating with U.N. nuclear watchdog while revealing a drone capable of hitting major cities in Israel, which has threatened to ...
Israel’s El Al Airlines agrees to repay state’s COVID loan by year end
El Al Israel Airlines (ELAL.TA) plans to repay a $45 million loan that it took from the government during the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of the year, under a ...
UAE H1 tourism revenues top $5 bln – vice president
The United Arab Emirates’ tourism revenues were 19 billion dirhams ($5.17 billion) in the first half of 2022, its vice president said on Sunday in a tweet.
Numbers of hotel guests rose 42 per ...
Saudi GDP up 12.2 per cent in second quarter, exceeding initial estimate
Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product expanded by 12.2 per cent in the second quarter compared with the same period of 2021, data showed on Wednesday, as the world’s top ...
Gulf states demand Netflix pull content deemed offensive
Gulf Arab states have demanded that U.S. streaming giant Netflix NFLX.O remove content deemed offensive to “Islamic and societal values” in the region, Saudi Arabia’s media regulator ...
Iran sentences two women to death for ‘corruption on earth’
Two women have been sentenced to death in Iran on charges of “corruption on earth” and human trafficking over the last few days, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported ...
Credit Suisse expands in Qatar, launches tech hub
Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) will expand in Qatar via a partnership with the Gulf country’s Investment Promotion Agency (IPA Qatar), the Swiss bank said on Monday.
It will create ...
OPEC+ agrees small oil production cut
OPEC and its allies led by Russia on Monday agreed a small oil production cut to bolster prices that have slid on fears of an economic slowdown.
The oil producers ...
Israel: Al Jazeera reporter was likely killed unintentionally by its forces
Israeli investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May concluded that she was likely to have been unintentionally shot by an Israeli soldier but was ...
Palestinians fire on bus with Israeli troops in West Bank, 6 hurt
Palestinians fired on an Israeli bus on a desert highway in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli military authorities and medics said, wounding five soldiers and the driver in ...
Turkish warship docks in Israel as bilateral ties warm
A Turkish warship has docked in Israel for the first such visit in more than a decade as relations between the U.S. allies improve following fierce feuding over the ...
Hamas authorities execute five Palestinians in Gaza
Gaza’s ruling Hamas Islamists executed five Palestinians on Sunday, two of them on charges of espionage for Israel that dated back to 2015 and 2009, the Interior Ministry said.
The dawn ...
Lebanon banking secrecy law retains key problems – IMF
The International Monetary Fund told the Lebanese state on Thursday its banking secrecy law has not resolved “key deficiencies,” urging officials to make new changes to their first attempt at ...