Kuwait- The Central Bank of Kuwait announced that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Kuwait expected a gradual revival in Kuwaiti non-oil sectors GDP up to 3.5% in the upcoming year and 4% in later years. The mission, in its concluding statement, also expected the investment in infrast
Riyadh- Minister of Labor and Social Development and Chairman of the 33rd session of the Council of Ministers of Labor and the Council of Ministers for Social Affairs of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab States Dr. Moufarrej al-Haqbani confirmed the importance of implementing the Supreme C
Pakistan has ordered Turkish teachers at schools with alleged links to cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been accused by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of orchestrating the July coup attempt against him, to leave the country, ahead of the Turkish leader’s visit on Wednesday. The teachers and their fam
Taiz- Fierce clashes renewed between Yemen’s national army backed by the popular resistance and coup militias across Taiz. Iran-aligned Houthi militiamen and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh loyalists, forming coup forces fueling the nation’s civil war, have recorded grave losses as army forces a
Washington- While the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for stopping assaults against ethical and religious minorities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that hate crimes against Muslims increased during 2015 in line with the presidential electoral campaign and the speeches agains
Cologne– Police launched raids in dozens of states across Germany on Tuesday, targeting about 190 mosques, flats and offices linked to the extremist group Die Wahre Religion (DWR) after the government banned the organization, accusing it of radicalizing youngsters. DWR, meaning “The True Religion”,
London- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Admiral Ali Shamkhani threatened to withdraw from the Nuclear Deal if Washington decided to renew sanctions on Tehran. Shamkhani said: “If you extend the sanctions, this will mean kicking away the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
London- Iranian MP Hussein Ali Haji Degana revealed that at least 12 top officials holding dual citizenship have been arrested in Iran over the last two years. Degana said that those detained have infiltrated into government and procured senior managerial and decision-making posts. The spy officials
The number of people with high blood pressure has almost doubled in 40 years to over 1.1 billion worldwide, researchers said on Wednesday. “High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for stroke and heart disease, and kills around 7.5 million people worldwide every year,” said lead au
Brussels- One year after the Paris attacks, a suicide bomber’s mobile phone was found underneath a pile of paperwork at a Belgian police station. Officers seized a phone and a USB stick belonging to Ibrahim Abdulsalam during a drug raid in Brussels in February 2015. Following the November 2015 attac
Marrakech- Salaheddine Mezouar, the Moroccan Foreign Minister and President of the 22nd U.N. conference on climate change (COP22), has said that “COP22 is taking place in an African country and the challenges found in Africa are plenty which urges Marrakesh conference and later ones to tackle them.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed a foreign policy advisor to the prime minister as ambassador to Israel, sealing the normalization of diplomatic relations after a partial rupture in 2010. The appointment reciprocated a move by the Israelis a day earlier. The deadly 2010 storming
Washington – President-elect Donald Trump met Tuesday with incoming Vice President Mike Pence to discuss Cabinet and top White House personnel choices. An advisor of Trump said former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani seems in a good position to be the Secretary of State. This came after Giuliani said in
Cairo- Oil rates continued bouncing back on Tuesday from a multi-months low. The increase was realized based on hopes of a majority vote for a production agreement being reached at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) upcoming November meeting. Russia’s Energy Minister
This four-bedroom four-and-a-half-bath ranch-style house with a finished basement level was built along a curved road in the Canadian west coast mountain resort by the architect Adam Schell in 2005. The next year the 4,260-square-foot concrete-and-wood residence was a finalist in the Georgie Awards
The Premier League may not be the best league in the world but it is the most unpredictable because any team can beat any other on their day.” That’s the go-to line for pundits and fans in England, and their theory was only strengthened by Leicester City’s remarkable title win last season. The suppo
Time does not really stand still during international breaks, it just tends to feel that way because a fortnight is a ludicrously long pause in the frantic pace of the domestic programme. A break suggests three or four days somewhere sunny. Two weeks is more like a full-blown vacation, a get-away-fr
For more than two years, markets have priced in a lot less monetary tightening than was signaled by the Federal Reserve’s “blue dots,” which represent the expectations of individual members of the Open Market Committee for the future path of interest rates. The surprise election of Donald Trump is l
Riyadh- Saudi Arabia’s Second Deputy Premier Defense Minister Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz confirmed the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) determination to move forward and develop military collaboration among its member states. The Prince said that in light of the challenges
Marrakech- King Mohammed VI of Morocco has warned against wait-and-see attitudes in addressing climate change, saying that procrastination will jeopardize security and stability and exacerbate the already expanding hotspots of tension and crises in the world. “The whole of mankind is pinning great h
