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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.

Egyptian military tanks are deployed in the northern Sinai town of Al-Arish (AFP/STR)

July 22nd, 2013 - 06:41 GMT

Six killed and 11 wounded as Egypt's Sinai faces new surge in violence

A Kurdish fighter the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on April 14, 2013. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)

July 21st, 2013 - 03:09 GMT

Al-Qaeda linked leader released by Kurds

Syrian men rush a heavily wounded man to hospital in Saraqeb in northwestern Syria after a barrel bomb dropped by an air force helicopter exploded less than 10 meters away from his car (AFP/DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS)

July 21st, 2013 - 08:30 GMT

Washington wary of Islamist factions in Syria

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives to deliver remarks at Queen Alia International Airport on July 19 (AFP/Mandel NGAN/POOL)

July 21st, 2013 - 06:56 GMT

US announces Palestinian peace bid with hopeful reservation

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference in Amman as Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judehlooks on (Source: AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN-POOL)

July 18th, 2013 - 07:10 GMT

Kerry pushes 2002 Israel peace plan

(Source: US Department of Health and Human Services)

July 18th, 2013 - 06:24 GMT

WHO says MERS not an emergency

A member of the Syrian armed forces takes position during a patrol near Al Manashir roundabout in Jobar in the outskirts of Damascus on July 14, 2013. (AFP/SANA)

July 17th, 2013 - 04:32 GMT

Civilians killed by car bomb in Damascus suburb

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at a press conference in Kosovo last week. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI

July 17th, 2013 - 02:12 GMT

EU foreign policy chief to meet Muslim Brotherhood

Turkish soldiers patrol in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar near the strategic Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain late last year (BULENT KILIC/AFP)

July 17th, 2013 - 01:40 GMT

Fire exchanged on Turkish-Syrian border

Abu Dhabi’s index climbed 0.5 percent, hitting a fresh 57-month high

July 17th, 2013 - 07:57 GMT

Egypt shares soar to six-week high ahead of cabinet formation

Said Al Shehri, a high ranking AQAP official who was killed by a US drone attack. (Image courtesy of Al Arabiya)

July 17th, 2013 - 07:38 GMT

AQAP official killed by US drone in Yemen

Egyptian soldiers pray as they are deployed in the northern Sinai town of Al-Arish on July 16, 2013. (Source: AFP / STR)

July 17th, 2013 - 06:06 GMT

Battles continue in Egypt's Sinai