Author: Steven Sahiounie

Egypt’s M2 money supply rose by 16.59% year-on-year in January, central bank data showed on Tuesday.

BLOM Lebanon PMI survey indicated business confidence reached a seven-month low, with overseas clients reluctant to place orders over security concerns

The value of exports and re-exports of Dubai Chamber of Commerce members reached a combined total of $77.46bln  in 2023

Elon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person, being replaced by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, a listing of the world’s 500 richest people.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday unveiled the country’s economic development program for 2024, promising steps to “transform” the national growth model and eliminate risks brought about by a recent slew of bankruptcies in the property sector.

In an interview, the director of the SVR highlights Russia’s views on certain topics such as the Israeli failure on October 7 and the possibility of a nuclear war. Director of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, discussed topics ranging from the Palestinian Resistance’s October 7 operation to NATO’s actions regarding the Ukrainian-Russian war in an interview with Soloviev Live show. According to Naryshkin, the Palestinian Resistance’s Operation Al Aqsa Flood was a show of the “absolute failure” of Israeli intelligence. “First of all, this is the failure of intelligence, which was considered one of the strongest in the…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, discussed with his Iraqi counterpart, Fouad Hussein, bilateral relations, the situation in the Arab region in general and Gaza in particular. Eelier, Mikdad discussed with Secretary-General the Arab League, Ahmed Abu al-Gheit, the conditions and developments on the Arab and regional arenas. The meetings come on the sidelines of the 161st session of the Arab League’s Council on the Ministerial level. During the two meetings, Mikdad called for activating the Arab joint action and supporting the Arab central issues, on top, the Palestinian cause, ending the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan and halting the…

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Somalia met on Tuesday to discuss ways to enhance relations between the two countries and joint efforts to tackle regional and international challenges. Sameh Shoukry welcomed Ali Mohamed Omar in Cairo during the Somali minister’s visit to Egypt. The pair expressed their keenness to maintain close contact on regional and international issues of common interest, Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, said. Shoukry reiterated Egypt’s backing for Somalia’s efforts to enhance peace and security in the Horn of Africa region, which he said “represents a basic pillar of regional and continental…

Syria has condemned attempts to target The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in service of the Israeli occupation’s agenda aiming at liquidating the right to return and the Palestinian issue, calling on donor countries that suspended their funding to UNRAW to resume donations. “The Israeli brutal aggression and the genocide war still continue against the Palestinians and the 5-month huge humanitarian suffering in Gaza is now escalated by the occupation’s attempts to liquidate the UNRWA,” Qusay al-Dahhak, Syria’s permanent Ambassador to the UN in New York said at General Assembly meeting. He added that Syria calls on…

The Israeli hostilities prove the regime is “deliberately” pursuing the policy of destroying Palestine, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated. The Iranian minister was addressing an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s foreign ministers in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Tuesday. The meeting, requested by Iran and some other Islamic countries, was held to review the latest developments in Gaza and to discuss effective measures to halt the Israeli campaign of death and destruction in the besieged Palestinian territory. “In a situation where we are once again witnessing the inability of the UN Security Council to deal with the oldest…