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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.

LEBANON, Tripoli : TOPSHOTS
Smoke is seen above people gathering outside a mosque on the site of a powerful explosion in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on August 23, 2013. AFP PHOTO IBRAHIM CHALHOUB

August 23rd, 2013 - 03:49 GMT

At least 29 killed and hundreds injured in Tripoli blasts

IRAQ, Arbil : A Syrian-Kurdish children sitting on a bed at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of the of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 22, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED

August 23rd, 2013 - 08:25 GMT

1 million Syrian child refugees

A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows bodies of children wrapped in shrouds as Syrian rebels claim they were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013. AFP PHOTO / HO / SHAAM NEWS NETWORK

August 23rd, 2013 - 06:57 GMT

U.S. unable to "conclusively determine" use of chemical weapons

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon speaks during a joint press conference in Jerusalem on August 16, 2013.(AFP)

August 22nd, 2013 - 07:16 GMT

Ban calls on Syria to allow UN chemical weapons investigation 'without delay'

Oman has two full-fledged Islamic banks, Bank Nizwa and Al Izz Islamic Bank, as well as several Islamic windows from conventional lenders.

August 22nd, 2013 - 03:01 GMT

Is Oman's Development Bank converting to Islam?

EGYPT, Cairo : (FILES) A picture taken on June 2, 2012 shows ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sitting inside a cage in a courtroom during his verdict hearing in Cairo. AFP PHOTO/STR

August 22nd, 2013 - 01:12 GMT

Mubarak leaves prison

A Syrian couple mourns in front of bodies wrapped in shrouds ahead of funerals following what Syrian rebels claim to be a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013. (AFP/Shaam News Network)

August 22nd, 2013 - 01:07 GMT

Syrian rebels say they are 'still finding bodies' from chemical attack

France's Foreign Affairs minister, Laurent Fabius leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting, on August 21, 2013 in Paris. (AFP)

August 22nd, 2013 - 07:39 GMT

France will 'respond with force' if chemical allegations are true - FM

A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows bodies of children wrapped in shrouds laid out on the ground as Syrian rebels claim they were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013. (AFP/HO/Shaams News Network)

August 22nd, 2013 - 06:18 GMT

Damascus suburbs bombed following chemical weapons attack - activists

A woman mourns over a body wrapped in shrouds laid out in a line on the ground with other victims which Syrian rebels claim were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013. (AFP/HO/Shaams News Network)

August 21st, 2013 - 05:43 GMT

UN monitoring Syrian chemical weapon situation 'carefully'

Shell denied rumors that it will halt operations indefinitely.

August 21st, 2013 - 09:55 GMT

International firms in Egypt to resume work

In footage uploaded to YouTube, doctors explained the symptoms of those killed by the nerve gas agent. (YouTube/BBC)

August 21st, 2013 - 08:58 GMT

640 dead in alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack