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Gina Haspel, the Director of CIA will brief this Tuesday leaders of the Senate about the death of Saudi journalist and The Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in a closed session after the White House last week barred her agency Read more
Qatar will pull out from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in January 2019, the tiny Gulf’s minister of energy has announced. “Qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019,” Saad al-Kaabi said Monday at Read more
Conditions in Yemen have deteriorated alarmingly, and the country is on the “brink of a major catastrophe” said Mark Lowcock – Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator – on returning from his mission to Yemen on Saturday. “But Read more
Roberto Cavalli Group, one of Italy’s major fashion houses, has signed a deal to begin business in Bahrain. Roberto Cavalli will deploy its know-how in luxury interior decoration in the little kingdom where it has been assigned to furnish 247 Read more
The UAE passport has become this month the world’s most powerful passport after it ranked 27th in December 2016. The Emirati passport leapfrogged to the top of the global Passport Index ranking, the Emirati passport holders being able to travel Read more
US carmaker Ford Motor Company and German automotive Volkswagen (VW) are discussing partnership plans that could lead to the production of some models of the German commercial vehicles in the American firm’s plant in Turkey. “Ford and VW have been Read more
Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), the largest electricity company in the Arab world, inked Thursday a deal for a $2.15-billion revolving credit facility with eight international financial institutions that have agreed to support the utility company expand its public work. The Read more
US TV channel CNN has fired one of its longtime commentators, Marc Lamont Hill, for “rebuking Israel” and calling for “a free Palestine”, in a speech at the United Nations. CNN spokeswoman, Barbara Levin, announced Thursday the sacking of media Read more
A court in Baghdad has pressed seven years in prison each against a former trade minister and two former officials of his department after they were indicted for embezzling up to $14.3 million. The Special Court for Crimes against Integrity Read more
Hamas top leader Wednesday said he has received from Moscow an invitation to visit Russia. Ismail Haniyeh’s office said the invitation was delivered by a visiting Russian diplomat. Unlike the United States, Israel and the European Union, Russia does not Read more