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Month: March 2020

Bahrain: GIB snatches Deutsche Bank AG’s CEO as new boss

March 30, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank BSC has hired Deutsche Bank AG’s CEO Jamal Al Kishi to become the new CEO of the parent company, Gulf International Bank B.S.C, Bloomberg reports.   Al Kishi will also become the deputy group CEO, GIB Read more

Finance, Gulf News, HeadlinesBahrain, Deutsche Bank AG, GIB

Oman: Biggest oil & gas producer to downsize amid Coronavirus outbreak

March 30, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Oman’s Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is contemplating a cut in staff working on its oil and gas projects in response to the spread of the coronavirus, Bloomberg reports. The cut is in plan and is in discussion with contractors, PDO Read more

Energy, Gulf News, Headlines, World Newscoronavirus, Oman, PDO, staff cuts

Iran_USA: Tehran denies death of FBI operative in prison

March 27, 2020March 30, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Iran has rejected claims by the family of Bob Levinson, a former FBI officer, that the operative has died in its prisons. Spokesman of the Iranian mission at the UN, Ali Reza Mir Yousefi, said in a statement Iran does Read more

Gulf News, Headlines, World NewsFBI agent Bob Levinson, IranUSA

Turkey: Boxing Federation lays into IOC over Covid-19 contamination of two athletes

March 26, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Turkey’s Boxing Federation has slammed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after two of its athletes and head coach contracted Covid-19 during qualifying bouts for the 2020 Games in London. Athletes, Serhat Güler and trainer Seyfullah Dumlupınar, of Turkish boxing team Read more

Headlines, World NewsBoxing Federation, coronavirus, IOC, Turkey

Iran: Supreme leader rejects MSF help to combat Covid-19 pandemic

March 26, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Iran, which had invited Doctors without Borders to send a team of doctors to help address the fast-spreading Covid-19, made a U-turn, fearing the doctors of the international humanitarian organization would be spies.   Iranian officials rejected the offer of Read more

Gulf News, Headlines, World Newscoronavirus, Iran, MSF

Coronavirus: Kuwaiti Banking association postpones repayment of loans, credit card facilitations for SMEs

March 25, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Kuwait’s banking association has decided to postpone repayment of loans and credit card facilitations for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) to help address the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. The measure, which also includes interest, Read more

Gulf News, Headlinescoronavirus, financial measures, Kuwait

Saudi Arabia: Turkey demands life sentence for accused in Khashoggi’s murder

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Turkey’s prosecutors Wednesday sought aggravated life sentences for 18 accused in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in the city of Istanbul, Turkish news agency Anadolu reports. The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Office, the agency said, Read more

Gulf News, Headlines, World NewsJamal Khashoggi, KSA, Turkey

Oman: Accor group takes over Muscat international airport hotel

March 21, 2020 KanelkaTagba

The world leading hospitality hotel group Accor has acquired Muscat international airport hotel and will revamp the property, Arabian Business reports. The France-based group entered into agreement with Sundus Investments, a mixed-use developer in the Middle East for the operation. Read more

Gulf News, Headlines, World NewsAccor group, Muscat international airport hotel, Oman

Qatar: foreigners banned from entry as contamination from Coronavirus surges

March 20, 2020March 21, 2020 KanelkaTagba

Qatar has closed borders to foreigners and suspended international flights to the Gulf country as the spread of the Coronavirus becomes alarming with 470 confirmed cases. The move comes as health ministry Friday announced 10 new cases, bringing the infection Read more

Gulf News, Headlines, World NewsCoronavirus surges, foreigners banned from entry, Qatar

UK brings back home part of its forces in Iraq

March 19, 2020 Jaber Ali

The British Ministry of Defense announced Thursday it has decided to pull part of its military personnel from Iraq.   The Ministry of Defense has decided to redeploy some of its personnel back to the United Kingdom, Defense Secretary Ben Read more

Headlines, World NewsIraq, pulling of part of British forces in Iraq, UK

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