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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.

The new offer follows the cancellation of a $750m sale last week. (File photo)

February 25th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Bahrain launches $600M bond sale despite junk status rating

Syrian government forces watch smoke billowing from Aleppo's thermal power plant after taking control of the area on the eastern outskirts of the city from Daesh on February 21, 2016.

February 24th, 2016 - 05:30 GMT

Russia struck 187 targets in Syria in the last two days: defense minister

Syrian Red Crescent staff survey the delivery of humanitarian aid in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, on the outskirts of Damascus on Feb. 23, 2016 during an operation to deliver aid to thousands of besieged Syrians. (AFP/Abd Doumany)

February 24th, 2016 - 04:25 GMT

UN: First airdrop delivers 21 tons of aid to Deir Ezzor

The pipeline from Iraqi Kurdistan has been sabotaged before, but an outage of nearly two weeks is the longest the pipeline has ever been out of commission. (File photo)

February 24th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Kurdish oil exports suspended after pipeline sabotaged in Turkey

The Tel Aviv woman has over 70 Egyptian fruit bats in her apartment. (Screenshot)

February 23rd, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Israeli woman goes batty helping injured animals

Tarek Amer, governor of the Central Bank of Egypt. (File photo)

February 23rd, 2016 - 09:49 GMT

Egypt won't float currency until reserves reach at least $25B: CBE

Aleppo residents walk toward an ambulance after one of many Russian airstrikes on the town. (AFP/File)

February 22nd, 2016 - 06:36 GMT

Syrian ceasefire to begin Feb 27

The trial accusing 32 of spying for Iran and inciting sectarian strife, may stoke already tense relations between Tehran and Riyadh. (File photo)

February 22nd, 2016 - 09:50 GMT

Saudi Arabia sets trial for 32 accused of spying for Iran

The radioactive material was feared to be in the hands of Daesh, who could use it to make a 'dirty bomb'. (Shutterstock)

February 21st, 2016 - 03:30 GMT

UPDATE: Missing radioactive material found in Iraq

Headquarters of the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo. (Afreximbank)

February 21st, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Egypt: Afreximbank offers CBE $500M in trade finance aid

Syrian opposition fighters load a home-made rocket launcher in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 2, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ismail Abdulrahman)

February 20th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Syrian opposition army will agree to ceasefire if Russia halts airstrikes

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic. (AFP/File)

February 20th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Two kidnapped Serbs believed to be dead after US airstrikes in Libya