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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.

The Russian ships will have to compete with the presence of the US navy in the Med. Seen here is the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, left, and the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman transiting the Strait of Gibraltar on August 3, 2013 on their way to the Mediterranean Sea. (AFP)

August 29th, 2013 - 08:51 GMT

Russia deploying ships to Mediterranean in anticipation of Syria strike

US President Barack Obama (AFP/File)

August 29th, 2013 - 06:13 GMT

Obama still undecided over Syria strike

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube by the Eastern Ghouta Media Centre on August 28, 2013 allegedly shows United Nations (UN) vehicles travelling to the site where rockets had fallen in Damascus' eastern Ghouta suburb during an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons strike near the capital. (AFP/YouTube)

August 28th, 2013 - 04:43 GMT

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting over Syria

At least 26 people were killed in bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday morning. (Getty images)

August 28th, 2013 - 07:49 GMT

Bombing wave hits Baghdad, killing at least 26

Cairo Liberation Front

August 28th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

What a shaabi! Dutch DJ spreads NA music and awareness across Europe

The Putin-Bandar meeting was injected with threats of a “dramatic turn of events” in Syria (Photo Credit: Getty images).

August 27th, 2013 - 10:31 GMT

Futile or dangerous? Saudi Arabi attempts to seduce Russia with lucrative oil and gas deal

Syrian President Bashar Assad gives an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia in Damascus. (AFP/SANA)

August 27th, 2013 - 08:16 GMT

US faces failure, 'Vietnam scenario' if they attack Syria

A Palestinian youth clashes with Israeli border guards in the West Bank's Qalandiya refugee camp on August 26, 2013, after Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded 19 others in the camp. (AFP)

August 26th, 2013 - 04:55 GMT

Washington denies Palestinian-Israeli peace talks cancelled

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on August 26, 2013 allegedly shows a UN inspector (C) listening to the testimony of a man in the Damascus subburb of Moadamiyet al-Sham. (AFP/YouTube)

August 26th, 2013 - 04:04 GMT

UN team successfully obtains chemical weapons samples despite sniper attack

A "Martyrs" poster in Qalandiya refugee camp shows the portraits of three Palestinians killed by Israeli soliders in a pre-dawn raid on the West Bank camp. (Image via Twitter)

August 26th, 2013 - 12:03 GMT

Palestinians cancel peace talks with Israel over death of three in West Bank

A convoy of United Nations (UN) vehicles leave a hotel in Damascus on August 26, 2013 carrying UN inspectors travelling to the site of a suspected deadly chemical weapon attack the previous week in Ghouta, east of the capital. (AFP)

August 26th, 2013 - 11:33 GMT

UN team suspends mission after being targeted by snipers

The UN chemical weapons investigation team arrives in Damascus on August 18, 2013. (AFP)

August 26th, 2013 - 07:19 GMT

All options still on the table for Syria intervention - France