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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.

A shoe was thrown at him in parliament by a colleague, while others demanded he be suspended. (AFP/File)

February 28th, 2016 - 02:27 GMT

The Egyptian lawmaker who dined with the Israeli ambassador was attacked with a shoe

A picture taken on February 27, 2016 shows damaged buildings after forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognized parliament retook the center of Benghazi following fierce fighting with Daesh militants. (AFP/Abdullah Doma)

February 28th, 2016 - 09:25 GMT

Airstrikes target Daesh positions in Libya

An Iranian woman presses her inked-finger on a registering paper during the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station at Massoumeh shrine in the holy city of Qom, south of the capital Tehran, on Feb. 26, 2016. (AFP/Behrouz Mehdi)

February 28th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Early results in Iran elections suggest big wins for moderates

Yemeni men inspect damaged vehicles following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital Sanaa, on February 27, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

February 27th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Forty killed in Saudi-led airstrikes northeast of Yemen’s Sanaa

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sit atop an armored personnel carrier in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakeh, on February 19, 2016. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

February 27th, 2016 - 12:26 GMT

Daesh attacks town held by Kurdish YPG on Syrian-Turkish border

The suburbs of Damascus have faced heavy fighting and airstrikes. (AFP/File)

February 25th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Syrian officials: Nusra Front fired mortars on civilians in Damascus

A representational image of a pile of guns. (Shutterstock)

February 25th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Turkish forces discover explosives, weapons hidden near a major checkpoint

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) welcomes Syrian Opposition Council President Khaled Khoja during their meeting in Moscow. (AFP/File)

February 25th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Syrian opposition voices concerns about ceasefire

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered a televised speech on Feb. 24, 2016 calling for national unity, in which he told Egyptians, "Do not listen to anyone else but me." (AFP/File)

February 25th, 2016 - 10:30 GMT

Sisi to Egyptians: ‘Do not listen to anyone else but me’

Ali Dinc, a truck driver from Izmir, has sued his wife for uttering "unspeakable profanities" against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (AFP/File)

February 25th, 2016 - 10:27 GMT

Turkish man sues wife for insulting Erdogan, has ‘no regrets’

Aircraft leasing, fuel, staff, ground handling and other expenses must be paid in dollars. (Air Cargo News)

February 25th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Air France-KLM urge release of $13M blocked in Egypt

Syrian Kurds mourn next to coffins as they attend the funeral procession of four Kurdish fighters in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on February 18, 2016. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

February 25th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Kurdish YPG says it will observe the upcoming ceasefire