The first Ukraine grain cargo refused by buyer -Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon
The Razoni, the first ship to depart Ukraine under an U.N.-brokered deal, is looking for another port to unload its grain cargo as the initial Lebanese buyer refused ...
Israel re-opens Gaza crossings as truce with Palestinians holds
Israel reopened border crossings into Gaza on Monday following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with the militant Islamic Jihad group that ended the most serious outbreak of fighting around the volatile Palestinian ...
Israel, Palestinians agree truce from Sunday evening (Updated)
Israel and Palestinian militants have agreed to a truce in Gaza from Sunday evening as mediated by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend-long pounding of Palestinian targets by Israel triggered ...
Palestinian rockets reach west of Jerusalem on third day of Gaza fighting (Updated)
Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Sunday, causing no casualties but signalling new reach and resolve as Israel pressed air strikes in the Gaza Strip and admitted Jewish visitors ...
Israel-Gaza fighting spills into second day with air strikes, rockets
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza and Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israeli cities on Saturday as fighting ran into a second day, ending more than a year ...
Palestinian militants fire rockets at Israel after Gaza air strikes
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Friday in response to Israeli airstrikes which killed at least 10 people, including a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic ...
Saudi Arabia posts almost $21 billion second-quarter surplus
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 ...
On Beirut blast anniversary, Christian patriarch condemns govt
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 sets up investment promotion agency
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 GDP grows 11.8 per cent year-on-year in Q2
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 says it responded to EU proposal aimed at salvaging 2015 nuclear deal
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 Beirut silo complex collapses as port blast anniversary nears (Updated)
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: the last Arab democracy goes under
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 killed in Kabul cricket stadium grenade attack, police say
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 ...
Floods kill at least 53 in Iran, rescuers hunt for the missing
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 real estate sales surge 60 per cent as investors, Russians snap up property
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 ...
As Lebanese staple runs short, tempers flare at bakeries
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, Unilever talks on out-of-court deal on Israeli dispute break down
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 cancels contracts for 240,000 T of stranded Ukrainian wheat
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 ...
Qatar’s central bank raises deposit rate by 75 basis points to 3 per cent
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 ...
IMF says Egypt needs progress on fiscal and structural reform
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.
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Lebanon parliament passes amendments to banking secrecy law
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, Saudi Arabia to sign energy deal, crown prince says
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 ...
High-level talks with Egypt could take place, Erdogan says
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 ...