Author: Steven Sahiounie

NEW YORK – A gauge of global stocks declined for a second straight session on Friday, weighed down by weakness in technology shares, while the dollar hit its highest level since early May as a gauge of U.S. business activity edged up to a more than two-year high.

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ABUJA – Construction of Nigeria’s 614-km (384-mile) natural gas pipeline will be completed by the first quarter of 2025, the head of state oil firm NNPC said on Friday, two years after the initial planned completion date. Mele Kyari joined three cabinet ministers touring the project in the northern state of Kaduna and said major parts were already finished. “Our mission is to work towards delivering it by December this year, but we are confident this project will be delivered by the first quarter of 2025,” Kyari said. In 2022, Kyari had said construction of the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline would…

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi, on Friday, spoke with Ararat Mirzoyan, the Foreign Minister of Armenia, over the phone and informed him that Jordan is very grateful for his nation’s recognition of the Palestinian state. By recognizing the Palestinian state, Safadi emphasized that Armenia was upholding international law, justice, and peace. A just and comprehensive peace cannot be reached without the establishment of a free and independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along the lines of June 4, 1967, in accordance with the two-state solution. The Israeli aggression against Gaza, its…

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