Author: Steven Sahiounie

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia aims to enhance its stock exchange appeal to foreign investors, targeting 17 percent ownership of free float shares by 2024, a new report has revealed.

President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed the decision of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to recognize the State of Palestine, saying it contributes to achieving the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination on their land and in taking actual steps to support the implementation of the two-state solution. The President affirmed that the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has steadfastly supported the rights of the Palestinian people over the past years and voted in favor of these rights in international forums. He pointed out that this decision is consistent with the principles of international law that recognize the right…

Modern Europe is facing a triple existential threat; a new paradigm is needed to counter it, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the British weekly The Economist. “It’s this triple existential risk for our Europe: a military and security risk; an economic risk for our prosperity; an existential risk of internal incoherence and disruption to the functioning of our democracies,” the French president said. “So these are the three risks that have accelerated in recent years, very strongly no doubt. Moreover, after the pandemic, we underestimated these tensions, even though Europe began to respond to them, but too…

The Israeli occupation forces bombard the Syrian capital of Damascus, wounding eight Syrian Arab Army soldiers in the process. Eight Syrian soldiers were injured on Thursday evening after an Israeli air strike targeted a site in the vicinity of the capital, Damascus, Syrian news agency SANA reported. The Israeli occupation “launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a site in the vicinity of Damascus,” the agency said SANA reported that the attack resulted in the injury of eight military personnel, in addition to some material losses, without mentioning the nature of the targeted site, or any other…

The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has taken the decision to formally recognisze the State of Palestine. As recommended by the Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, the country’s Cabinet has determined that the formal recognition of Palestine by the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago will assist in the achievement of a lasting peace by strengthening the growing international consensus on the issue of Palestinian statehood. Trinidad and Tobago has a long history of principled support for the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. The Government’s consistent position is that a two-State solution is the only…

A top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says only a fraction of Iran’s available military resources were used in the retaliatory airstrikes against Israel last month. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division, said in an interview on Wednesday that during Iran’s punitive strikes — dubbed Operation True Promise — the United States, Britain and France came to the help of Israel in a bid to repel Iran’s attacks. He, however, added that the Islamic Republic stood against the superpowers and their allies by using only 20 percent of what it had…

The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization said greater productivity levels could be reached through specialising in existing strengths

The trade gap came in at $69.4 billion, narrowing slightly from February’s $69.5 billion figure — which had been revised larger, said the Commerce Department

The representative of Hyundai Rotem revealed the company’s plans for establishing a new factory for manufacturing Metro cars in the Suez Canal Economic Zone

The MoU also involves the exchange of information between both countries to decide upon the best candidates for the funding