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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.

Rebel fighters walk in the rubble of destroyed building in Syria. (Image credit: AFP)

November 6th, 2013 - 07:27 GMT

Car bomb kills eight in Syrian intelligence building

The OPCW has stated that it will run out of funding for its Syria mission by the end of this month (Mohammed Abdullah/Reuters)

November 6th, 2013 - 06:38 GMT

Syria's chemical weapon destruction may be delayed if OPCW does not receive more funding

Iran has justified its nuclear program as limited to uranium enrichment for civilian energy, not nuclear weapons fuel (Courtesy of CNN)

November 6th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

Iran, Israel and Arab states in rare secret meeting ahead of Iran's nuclear talks Thursday

10 Emiratis tried Tuesday are among 61 Islamists who were convicted by a UAE court in July of plotting to overthrow the government (Courtesy of Freedom House)

November 6th, 2013 - 03:00 GMT

UAE Muslim Brotherhood trial adjourned until next week

Clashes between Misrata brigade members and security officials at a Tripoli checkpoint left two wounded Tuesday (Ismail Zitouny/Reuters)

November 5th, 2013 - 01:07 GMT

Fierce clashes in Libya's Tripoli leave 2 wounded, protestors burn Benghazi

Last month alone, Blackberry reported a second-quarter net loss of $965m (Pictured: Blackberry Z10)

November 4th, 2013 - 03:42 GMT

Breaking: Blackberry no longer selling iself

UAE's Central Bank is imposing the new bank exposure rules in December in order to ensure that the country avoids future corporate debt crises similar to Dubai's most recent economic meltdown (Courtesy of the Business Recorder)

November 4th, 2013 - 11:14 GMT

New UAE bank exposure rules scheduled to take effect in December

Foreign laborers work at a construction site in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Like women, workers are deprived of the most basic rights in Saudi Arabia. (Image credit: AFP)

November 3rd, 2013 - 04:41 GMT

No country for poor men: Saudi man beats worker for talking to wife

Yemenis shout slogans during a protest outside the home of Yemeni President Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi against the fighting between the Shiite Houthi movement and Salafi militants in the northern town of Damaj. (Image credit: AFP)

November 2nd, 2013 - 03:19 GMT

Ceasefire after forty killed in Yemen

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif prior to a meeting in Ankara. (Image credit: AFP)

November 2nd, 2013 - 07:22 GMT

Turkey and Iran exhibit thaw in relations over Syria

UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi attends a press conference in the Syrian capital Damascus on November 1, 2013 prior to his visit to Lebanon. [/AFP/Getty Images]

November 1st, 2013 - 11:18 GMT

Syria envoy Brahimi says no peace talks without opposition

Local doctors sent videos to reporters showing six deaths caused by malnutrition in a sieged village. The majority of the victims were children (Courtesy of Foreign Policy)

November 1st, 2013 - 05:00 GMT

Syria's most fatal weapon: starvation warfare