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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.

There will be no more Qatari support for the Egyptian economy, the finance minister said on Monday

March 11th, 2013 - 08:57 GMT

No more Qatari aid for Egypt

Members of the Ansaru group speaking in an unverified location on Dec 24 2012 (AFP Photo)

March 11th, 2013 - 08:40 GMT

Two Lebanese hostages in Nigeria are yet to be confirmed dead

Inflation in Egypt jumped in February, new statistics show

March 10th, 2013 - 12:18 GMT

Inflation jumps in Egypt

Iran is to lose India as a key oil buyer, in a blow to the Islamic Republic's economy

March 10th, 2013 - 07:55 GMT

Iran loses India as key oil buyer

Layla Issawi (R) holds a picture of her son Samer Issawi, a Palestinian held in Israeli jail and on hunger strike for more than 200 days. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

March 9th, 2013 - 09:32 GMT

Samer Issawi: Palestine's forgotten hunger striker battles on

Jordan has said that no locusts have been spotted so far int he country

March 7th, 2013 - 08:14 GMT

No locusts in Jordan - agricultural ministry

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows Syrian anti-regime protesters destroying a statue of former president Hafez al-Assad after rebels overran the northern city of Raqqa on Monday. (Photo: AFP Photo / YouTube)

March 6th, 2013 - 05:04 GMT

Syrian warplanes bombard rebel-seized Raqqa

Protesters have broken into an Iraqi oil field demanding jobs

March 4th, 2013 - 12:36 GMT

Protesters break into Iraqi oil field

The bakeries in Syria have come under fire in the past as residents queue for hours.

March 4th, 2013 - 11:35 GMT

The secret bakery of Aleppo thrives while war rages

The Sayyida Zeinab shrine on the outskirts of Damascus. (SANA)

March 4th, 2013 - 09:04 GMT

Shia fighters rally to defend Damascus shrine from Sunni rebels

Gas exports to Libya has suspend gas exports to Italy following clashes near a gas facility in the north west of the country. (FIle Photo)

March 3rd, 2013 - 01:11 GMT

Libya suspend Italian gas exports following clashes

Iraqi protestors shout slogans during a demonstration in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Friday demanding the ousting of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD AL-SAMARRAI)

March 2nd, 2013 - 05:00 GMT

Iraq's finance minister resigns at anti-Maliki protest