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The IMFSaid Last Month That Growth in the Non-Oil Sector Was Expected to Accelerate as the Kingdom Moved Ahead With Economic Reforms. (Shutterstock)

September 18th, 2018 - 07:18 GMT

IMF Confident Saudi Can Meet 1.9 Percent GDP Forecast

Saudi Arabia’s economy can achieve an International Monetary Fund forecast of 1.9 percent gross domestic product growth this year, the central bank governor said on Sunday.

ADFD has been involved in Mauritania's development initiatives sicne 1977 (Courtesy of UAE Interact)

December 1st, 2013 - 07:49 GMT

Abu Dhabi development fund supports African country's $29.9 million infrastructure project

A key figure in the uprising against Hosni Mubarak in 2011, political activist Ahmad Maher turned himself into the Egyptian authorities late on Saturday after they issued a warrant for his arrest. (file

December 1st, 2013 - 06:51 GMT

Leading Egyptian activist Ahmad Maher turns himself in to authorities

According to Prime Minister Wael Halki, Syria is winning the war against "terrorism". (AFP/File)

December 1st, 2013 - 06:24 GMT

Syria PM: Assad is "winning" the civil war

Libyan men stand outside a building used by Ansar al-Sharia militia after it was torched by residents on November 25, 2013 in Benghazi. [Abdullah Doma/AFP]

November 29th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

Libya ammunition depot blast kills over 40

Many of the main services, such as Gaza's water filtration and sewage system, are in dire need of funding to continue operations in the upcoming months (Marco Longari/AFP)

November 28th, 2013 - 10:06 GMT

Qatar pledges $150 million to Palestinians to ease PA's economic woes

A U.N. official has denied that there are any problems arising in the reconciliation talks between the global organisation and the Yemeni delegates (AFP)

November 28th, 2013 - 07:10 GMT

U.N. denies Yemen pulling out of national reconciliation talks

Syrian opposition national coalition Ahmad Jarba told reporters "We are now ready to go to Geneva" (File Archive/AFP)

November 28th, 2013 - 07:05 GMT

Syrian opposition coalition to attend Geneva II, reaffirms Iran cannot be involved

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on November 27, 2013. [Atta Kenare/AFP]

November 27th, 2013 - 03:14 GMT

Turkey, Iran call for ceasefire in Syria before Geneva talk

Currently, one litre of unleaded 90-octane gasoline is sold at JD0.810, while a litre of 95-octane is priced at JD0.98.

November 27th, 2013 - 03:55 GMT

Jordan has a good reason to celebrate the Iran deal

WHO launched a polio vaccination campaign earlier this month in Syria and neighboring countries in an effort to curb the spread of the paralyzing disease (AP)

November 26th, 2013 - 11:41 GMT

New polio cases confirmed near Syria's capital and Aleppo

A company source said Kuwait Airways had been negotiating to lease the Jet Airways aircraft for eight years in a deal worth 134 million dinars ($473.7 million) but decided instead to buy the planes for 77 million dinars.

November 26th, 2013 - 10:46 GMT

Stingy or frugal? Kuwait Airways chief suspended over plan to buy used aircrafts

Since the global financial meltdown, European governments and investors have been more keen to develop Islamic finance within the Eurozone as a way to attract wealthy investors from the Gulf and southeast Asia (Shutterstock)

November 26th, 2013 - 10:15 GMT

Private Gulf investors to launch first Islamic bank in Eurozone in 2014