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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.

Buildings are heavily damaged in Zamalka, a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, shortly after troops loyal to Syrian President Assad launched a brutal offensive against rebels in the area. AFP/Shaam)

August 21st, 2013 - 06:53 GMT

Syrian activists accuse Assad of using chemical weapons against rebels

A picture taken on November 22, 2012, in Cairo shows Egyptian opposition leader and Nobel Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei leaving at the end of a joint press conference. AFP PHOTO / STR

August 20th, 2013 - 05:20 GMT

ElBaradei to be prosecuted

EGYPT, Cairo : Trucks and APC's of Egyptian riot police are parked in the main street leading to Egypt's landmark Tahrir square on August 20, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt.AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA

August 20th, 2013 - 04:01 GMT

Petition for Mubarak's release to be reviewed Wednesday

IRAQ, Arbil : An Iraqi-Kurdish man delivers mattresses as the Iraqi Red Crescent Society gathers aid supplies for Syrian refugees in the city of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 19, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED

August 20th, 2013 - 03:07 GMT

Quota imposed on Syrians entering Iraq

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits inside a dock at the police academy, on the outskirts of Cairo June 8, 2013. (AFP)

August 19th, 2013 - 11:03 GMT

Mubarak to be released in 48 hours - lawyer

The formal framework of the Central Bank’s policy remains unchanged with the exchange rate fixed at QAR 3.64/$1.

August 18th, 2013 - 02:47 GMT

Qatar's currency peg here to stay

An Egyptian soldier keeps watch from the top of an army armoured personnel carrier at the entrance of Tahrir Square on August 18, 2013 in Cairo. (AFP)

August 18th, 2013 - 02:43 GMT

Egypt's Rebel 'Tamarod' group petitions for end to US aid, Israeli peace treaty

The economy is now more vulnerable than any time since Hosni Mubarak was deposed two and a half years. ago.

August 18th, 2013 - 08:54 GMT

Will Egypt's economy be able to withstand the bloodbath?

Saudi women arrive to attend the morning Eid al-Fitr prayer at Turki bin Abdullah grand mosque in Riyadh (AFP/FAYEZ NURELDINE)

August 18th, 2013 - 06:22 GMT

Saudi Metro may make Saudi Women mobile

Egyptian riot policemen get in the community services hall of Cairo's Al-Fath mosque where Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi held up (AFP/MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)

August 18th, 2013 - 05:42 GMT

Interim PM of Egypt suggests legally dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood

EGYPT, MINYA : A picture taken on August 14, 2013, shows the facade of the Prince Tadros Coptic church after being torched by unknown assailants in the central Egyptian city of Minya. AFP PHOTO/STR

August 17th, 2013 - 11:03 GMT

Egypt's Coptic Church supports military

For Illustrative Purposes. AFP PHOTO / Jose Manuel Rondon

August 17th, 2013 - 10:40 GMT

Bomb explosion halts Iraqi-Turkish oil flow