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Jordan has put five people on trial after they were charged for plotting suicide attacks on Israeli positions in the Israel-occupied West Bank, a judicial source said on Tuesday. “The state security court recently began legal proceedings against five people Read more
Petrofac, a provider of oilfield services to the international oil and gas industry has announced its Engineering & Production Services division (EPS) has secured a further six-month contract extension with Basra Oil Company (BOC) for its long-standing Iraq Crude Oil Read more
Kuwait’s national carrier, Kuwait Airways is planning to cut 1,500 jobs occupied by expats amid fallout of the covid-19 pandemic, a source told Bloomberg. The source who asked to be named because not allow to speak on the matter indicated Read more
Police in Iran Tuesday arrested a man who surrendered himself after he beheaded his 13-year old daughter in alleged honor killing. The man in northern city of Talesh killed his daughter Romina Ashrafi Tuesday with sickle while she was asleep Read more
Humanitarian aid projects to war-torn Yemen are reaching breaking point, and some $870 million is needed to continue giving life-saving assistance to millions of vulnerable people for the next six months, the World Food Program (WFP) warned on Tuesday. The Read more
Saudi Arabia has announced resumption of domestic air traffic for May 31 as the Gulf country is set to ease gradually lockdown measures by the end of this month. Six daily flights will resume in the first phase, state-run SPA Read more
One of Iranian five tankers carrying fuel for Venezuela has arrived safely in the Latin American country despite US threats. FORTUNE moored at the refinery of El Palito, Venezuela, according to TankerTrackers.com. “The Iranian oil/chem Handymax tanker, FORTUNE, which loaded Read more
A cabinet meeting led by President Michel Aoun has decided to maintain fuel supply contract with Sonatrach Petroleum (SPC), a subsidiary of Algeria’s state-run oil company, that is currently embroiled in supply of low quality fuel and corruption scandal, reports Read more
The Civil Service Council of the Sultanate has cut by 23 per cent the salaries of the new civil servants as Gulf country implement austerity measures as result of slimming oil revenues and effects of novel covid-19 disease. The council Read more
A senior Iranian official Sunday rejected reports claiming that Iran and Russia agreed to remove Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, saying it is a lie by the US. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a senior adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker in a tweet said Read more