Author: ReutersID: 1552994090984857900Tue, 2019-03-19 11:11MUMBAI: India's Jet Airways was fighting multiple crises Wednesday after grounding six planes, leaving it with only a third of its fleet flying, while pilots have threatened to walk out a…
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Author: ReutersID: 1553061040381847100Wed, 2019-03-20 08:57SINGAPORE: Oil prices were on Wednesday weighed down by economic growth concerns that dampened the outlook for fuel consumption, but supported by voluntary supply cuts led by producer clu…
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Author: APID: 1553058312471760400Wed, 2019-03-20 04:59Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment business, putting “Cinderella,” “The Simpsons,” “Star Wars” and “Dr. Strange” under one corporate roof.…
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Author: AFPID: 1553051220671485600Wed, 2019-03-20 03:04SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-owned Instagram on Tuesday made a move into potentially lucrative e-commerce by adding an option to buy products shown off in posts by selected brands.A new “check…
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Author: daniel fountainID: 1553032140337787300Wed, 2019-03-20 01:00LONDON: Global exchange-traded funds are building cash piles to place in Saudi Arabian equities, according to a ranking compiled by Bloomberg.It comes as the country joins the F…
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Tue, 2019-03-19 20:38CAIRO: Egypt’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has reportedly announced a $5 increase in the travelers’ departure fee starting from next November, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.Media said the increase to the passenge…
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Author: daniel fountainID: 1553013982056601200Tue, 2019-03-19 20:01LONDON: A German company has won an order to build a massive olive oil mill in Saudi Arabia that will be the largest in Asia.GEA won the order from The National Agricultural Dev…
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Author: daniel fountainID: 1553009217446152100Tue, 2019-03-19 18:42LONDON: British Airways has launched the first ever direct flight from Dammam to London Heathrow.The carrier has already started selling tickets priced from SR2,480 ($660) for t…
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Author: ReutersID: 1552988090964549100Tue, 2019-03-19 09:32LONDON: British employers ramped up their hiring at the fastest pace in more than three years in the three months to January as the country’s labor market defied the broader weakness in…
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Author: ReutersID: 1552987357214512400Tue, 2019-03-19 09:15BAKU: Venezuela has suspended its oil exports to India and views Russia and China as its main export destinations, the Azeri energy ministry said on Tuesday, citing Venezuela’s oil mini…
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Despite the ongoing trade blockade and in anticipation of hosting the Fifa World Cup in 2022, Qatar has announced plans for two new special economic zones. Alex Irwin-Hunt reports.  
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Nigeria will elect its next president in mid-February, with the race between incumbent Muhammadu Buhari and challenger Atiku Abubakar set to be a tight one. Issues such as privatisation and corruption are forming big parts of the debate, as Adrienn…
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Eli Cohen, Israel's economy minister, tells Jacopo Dettoni how the country's reputation for innovation gives it an advantage across multiple sectors, from aerotech and medtech to cybersecurity and agriculture. 
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A no-deal Brexit will be bad news for the UK’s trading partners in Africa, writes Mazdak Rafaty.
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Lebanon is a step closer to political stability, economic recovery and a tranche of foreign investment opportunities following the long-awaited formation of its government and the release of McKinsey's national economic vision. Sebastian Shehadi re…
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The EBRD invested €2bn in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region in 2018, and has set ambitious goals for 2019. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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Following a nine months political stalemate, Lebanon’s cabinet was finally formed in late January, thereby restoring some much-need political stability and unlocking $11bn in foreign development loans for infrastructure investment. Sebastian Sheha…
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East Africa will be the fastest growing region on the continent, according to an African Development Bank report. Alex Irwin-Hunt reports.
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Egypt and Israel are deepening ties in order to exploit their valuable natural gas reserves.
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Israeli agri-tech giant Netafim is the the first Israeli company on record to undertake a greenfield foreign investment into the Arab world, according to fDi Markets. 
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US court finds weedkiller had been ‘substantial factor’ in causing cancer of plaintiff
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Juncker warns no extension likely to be granted at EU summit this week
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New video game streaming service has potential to upend $135bn industry
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Shale producer pins hopes on enhanced oil recovery using captured greenhouse gases
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The outgoing president wants to manage the transition to a new era after 30 years in charge
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‘Ebit macht frei’ comment leaves question over carmaker’s leadership
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Initiative on identifying fledgling terrorists extended to private sector
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Rattled by Beijing’s economic clout, the EU is finally trying to devise a tougher strategy to deal with the Asian powerhouse
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Business chiefs praise bankruptcy and tax laws but complain about rash demonetisation
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Search engine seeks to draw a line under antitrust battles with Brussels
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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ESKINDER NEGA founded his first newspaper, Ethiopis, in 1993. After seven issues it was forced to close, the first paper charged under a muzzling law introduced by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which had shot its wa…
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AFTER EIGHT years of civil war, Syria’s education system is a wreck. Nearly 3m school-age children, a third of the total, do not attend classes. That is, in part, because 40% of schools are unusable. Some have been damaged in the fighting; others a…
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SEDITION AND statistics are two words that crop up with increasing regularity in the utterances of officials loyal to Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli. Last month a usually compliant daily newspaper, the Citizen, had the cheek to mention that th…
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LITTLE OVER a year ago, Kenya seemed to be teetering. Swathes of the country refused to recognise Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured, left) as their president. Nearly 100 people had died in political violence after he was declared winner of a brace of election…
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THE MAN who does not speak finally listened. On March 11th Algeria’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, announced that he would not run for a fifth term. That has been the demand of tens of thousands of protesters over the past three weeks. Mr Boutef…
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FOR YEARS Al-Anad air base was the springboard for America’s drone war in Yemen. Remote-controlled Predator aircraft wielding Hellfire missiles would take off from the base in Lahej province, in the south-west, to clobber hundreds of suspected jiha…
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MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES in Nairobi spent much of last year knocking things down. Shopping malls, petrol stations and apartment blocks were levelled; bulldozers cut through slums, leaving tens of thousands homeless. All this destruction may seem rather…
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PASSENGERS WAITING on the platform had only seconds to run before they were engulfed in flames. On February 27th a train hurtled into Cairo’s main station, crashed into a barrier and exploded. Twenty-two people died. The cause was a negligent condu…
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THE BESPECTACLED young woman from Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, laughs shyly before she speaks. But scars above her eyebrow and on her forearm hint at a dark past. As a member of a Yandaba gang—politically linked hoodlums who terrorise t…
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ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA started his campaign for a fifth term as Algeria’s president by promising not to finish it. The ailing ruler, who turned 82 this month, is not even in the country. An associate filed the papers for his candidacy while Mr Boutef…
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A hardened core committed to Islamic State’s mission raises questions about the totality of the group’s defeat even as it loses almost all its territory and its less committed members fall away.
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Iraq plans to open a vital border crossing with Syria in the coming days, allowing for the increased flow of goods to Syria from Iran along a route the U.S. worries would ease Tehran’s transport of weapons to its allies.
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Benny Gantz, a first-time politician who has emerged as the biggest threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election, has begun to stumble under the glare of national attention and is struggling to maintain his campaign’s momentu…
- 2 days ago, 18 Mar 19, 4:31pm -

Israel’s military said two rockets were launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip toward Tel Aviv for the first time since the 2014 war, setting off sirens in the city and raising tensions.
- 5 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 10:00pm -

Syrian and Russian airstrikes on the last rebel stronghold in Syria have intensified in recent days, raising fears of a military offensive that the U.N. has long warned would cause a humanitarian disaster.
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