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Kuwait will resume accepting and operating commercial international flights from August 1 but on limited capacity until August next year, Zawya reports. The Gulf country’s aviation authority, The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Monday unveiled a three-phase plan aiming Read more
Kuwait’s parliament has further extended the self-quarantine of its members for ten more days after a coffee boy tested positive for novel covid-19, Gulf News reports. The attendant, an expat who serves drinks to the lawmakers tested positive for the Read more
Oman ruler, sultan Haitham Bin Tarik, has ordered the country’s financial institutions to provide interest-free loans to Small and Medium Size companies as well as individual entrepreneurs whose businesses have been affected by the covid-19 pandemic. The program according to Read more
The foreign minister of UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has said he will not attend an Arab league meeting of foreign ministers on Libya arguing that the GNA was not consulted. Taher Siala, reports say, told the PanArab organization’s Read more
Saudi Arabia’s national oil giant has begun cutting hundreds of jobs across various sectors amid slump in oil demand due to covid-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reports citing anonymous sources. The cuts concern mostly positions held by expats the sources aware of Read more
British conglomerate McLaren Group is mulling plans to sell around 20 to 30 per cent of shares in its F1 team as it struggles financially, reports say. The plans according to Sky News are in the making and also considers Read more
Egypt Thursday said foreign tourists can return to main seaside resorts from July 1 as the North African country tries to relaunch the sector significantly affected by the covid-19 pandemic. International flights will resume to southern Sinai, where the resorts Read more
The House of Federation, which represents the 9 federated states, voted in favor of this solution despite much criticism from the political opposition as well as from jurists and human rights activists. Abiy Ahmed will continue to lead Ethiopia until Read more
Japan Tuesday offered Tunisia €4 million earmarked for the fight against the covid-19 pandemic. The aid will also be used to bolster Tunisia’s heath sector through the identification of contagious diseases. Tunisia has so far reported 1,087 cases including 982 Read more
Iran has sent to Venezuela a shipment of medical aid to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic after it succeeded to supply the Latin American country with much-needed fuel last month despite US threats. Venezuela’s Minister of Planning Read more