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Kuwait has invested nearly $15 billion in industrial projects and other sectors in Egypt and the assets are expected to surge in the next years following the Kuwaiti Emir’s visit to Cairo, an Egyptian newspaper said on Thursday.

The Egyptian government has submitted a request to the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a subsidiary of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), to increase its annually-obtained credit limit for purchasing wheat by roughly 150% to $500 million, a government official told Asharq Business.

The European Union has offered Lebanon a financial package of 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) to support its faltering economy and its security forces, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday during a visit to Beirut.