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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.

Workers staging demonstrations in Saudi Arabia

June 20th, 2013 - 10:00 GMT

Saudi crackdown on illegal firms threatens thousands

Tunisia's national flag

June 20th, 2013 - 09:00 GMT

Tunisia may delay Sukuk issue to next year

Anti-Hezbollah protesters burn an image of Hezbollah's leader, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. (Al Bawaba/AFP file photo)

June 19th, 2013 - 08:04 GMT

Britain fails to put Hezbollah on EU terror list

Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, Egypt's leading Muslim cleric. (AFP file photo, courtesy of dailynewsegypt.com)

June 19th, 2013 - 07:42 GMT

Mass anti-Morsi June 30 protests permitted - Egypt's top Muslim cleric

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday. (Al Bawaba file photo)

June 19th, 2013 - 08:11 GMT

Following Bagram Base attack, Afghanistan suspends talks with US

Syrian rebels in Aleppo rest from fighting. A recent report has uncovered that Libya has been arming the Syrian opposition forces. (Al Bawaba/AFP file photo)

June 18th, 2013 - 05:46 GMT

Libya facilitating weapon shipments to Syrian rebels

Cameron is hosting Obama, Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.. (AFP)

June 18th, 2013 - 01:22 GMT

G8 seek Syria consensus amid rumors of deadlock

Men detained for emulating Turkish choreographer Erdem Gunduz for standing on Taksim square in a lone protest are seen arrested inside a truck used by the Turkish police June 18 (Marco Longari / AFP)

June 18th, 2013 - 10:56 GMT

Turkish police carry out nationwide raids

US NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder. Image courtesy of NATO

June 17th, 2013 - 08:27 GMT

Syrian no-fly zone not on US agenda - NATO US ambassador

Syrian President Bashar Assad (Al Bawaba file photo)

June 17th, 2013 - 06:29 GMT

Europe will "pay the price" of arming rebels - Assad

Central Bank of Qatar

June 17th, 2013 - 10:36 GMT

Qatar tightens cap on banks' securities investments

no changes to the plan or the amount of aid the country is seeking

June 17th, 2013 - 04:30 GMT

Egypt in late stages of verifying reform plan with IMF - central bank