Author: Steven Sahiounie

AMMAN — The rapid penetration of digital payments in the Kingdom, reflects a growing demand that is boosting financial inclusion across the Kingdom.

The IMF had projected GDP growth for the Gulf oil exporter at 3.5% in 2024 in its most recent Regional Economic Outlook report, published in April

Several executives who served under Dimon have gone on to run other major financial institutions, making his succession plans a longtime subject of speculation

Dubai was ranked the No.1 global destination for greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in 2023 for the third successive year as it reinforces itself as a “must destination” for emerging businesses, investment, and talent, in addition to its rank as a key expansion hub for global corporations.

The exchange visits at various high levels from both sides’ leadership have cemented bilateral relations between Vietnam and Qatar: official

Madbouly underscored the government’s dedication to the policy, citing the Cabinet’s recent endorsement of a bill to form a central authority to supervise state enterprises

In a statement on Monday, the IRGC said the president’s memories and “inspiring and epic” role in fulfilling important and sensitive responsibilities in the Islamic establishment, particularly during his three-year presidential tenure, must always remain alive and serve as a good model. It added that the Islamic establishment will continue to move towards building a “strong Iran” and promoting “modern Islamic civilization” based on prudent guidelines of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and support of the Iranian nation. The Islamic establishment will further move more resolutely to defeat and disappoint sworn enemies, it emphasized. The IRGC…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad sent a message of condolence to Ali Bagheri Kani, the acting Iranian Foreign Minister, in which he expressed sadness and sorrow over the news of the demise of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and their companions, following the crash of the plane they were traveling onboard. “I received with great sadness and sorrow the news of the death of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, and my brother and friend, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and their companions, following the crash of the plane they were onboard,”…

Heads of the three branches of the Iranian government have agreed on a date for snap presidential elections in the country less than a day after it was confirmed that President Ebrahim Raeisi had been martyred in a helicopter crash in the northwest of the country. The official IRNA news agency said in a late Monday report that June 28 had been agreed as the date for Iran’s snap presidential elections during a meeting in Presidency Office in Tehran. The meeting featured Iran’s Head of the Executive Branch Mohammad Mokhber, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i.…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator More than 35,000 Palestinians are dead, and thousands of Israelis are in the streets asking for their government to resign. The Israeli people thought their government would work to negotiate a release of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza, but are now faced with the realization that to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “Hostage Lives Don’t Matter”. Netanyahu wants to hang on to power at all costs, even if it means his citizens have turned against him. Experts expect the Israeli war on Gaza to lasts months. With the US government and other western democracies…