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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.

Former UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan

March 27th, 2013 - 12:15 GMT

"Too late" for military intervention in Syria, Annan says

A truck ferry route between Jordan and Lebanon launched this week after the trade route between Syria and Lebanon was closed

March 27th, 2013 - 06:34 GMT

Lebanon - Jordan ferry route launched as Syrian land route blocked

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will travel to Qatar within days to hold preliminary peace talks with the Taliban, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. (Photo: AFP / Getty / Shah Marai)

March 25th, 2013 - 08:46 GMT

Karzai to visit Qatar for Taliban peace talks

The notorious 'Prisoner X' was reported trying to recruit a double agent in Hezbollah when he was arrested.

March 25th, 2013 - 08:41 GMT

'Prisoner X' had ties to Hezbollah double agent - reports

Christine Lagarde's Paris flat has been raided by police.

March 20th, 2013 - 12:57 GMT

IMF chief Lagarde's Paris home raided by French police

A Syrian rebel aims his weapon as he takes position behind a makeshift barricade during clashes with regime forces in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO/JM LOPEZ)

March 19th, 2013 - 01:25 GMT

Rebels answer back, claim Assad's forces fired the chemical weapons

The World Bank's International Finance Corp is planning to swap local Egyptian currency for dollars

March 19th, 2013 - 07:46 GMT

World Bank's International Finance Corp planning Egyptian currency swaps

Iraqi emergency personnel and civilians gather around the site of a car bomb explosion near the outskirts of the south Iraq city of Basra, on March 17, 2013, killing 10 people and wounding 16, the head of the Basra provincial council security committee said. (AFP PHOTO/STR)

March 19th, 2013 - 07:09 GMT

Baghdad's Shia districts target of deadly bombing attacks

Suheir Attasi (L1) , Mostafa Sabbagh Syrian opposition's National Coalition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib (CL) , Mostafa Sabbah(CR) and George Sebra (R) attend Syria's opposition coalition meeting on Monday in Istanbul to choose their first prime minister. (Photo: AFP / OZAN KOSE)

March 19th, 2013 - 05:21 GMT

Syrian opposition names provisional PM

A federal policeman inspects a vehicle in front of government buildings on Sunday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (Photo: AFP / Sabah Arar)

March 17th, 2013 - 12:36 GMT

Iraq's Shia south rocked by more bomb attacks

Repairing the damage caused by two years of fighting could cost up to $80 billion

March 17th, 2013 - 11:26 GMT

Syria's economy continues to suffer

Egypt has refused emergency credit from the IMF

March 13th, 2013 - 03:33 GMT

Egypt refuses emergency IMF loan