Sat, 2019-05-25 23:38For some, student survival means merely coasting along at university in the hope of bagging a 2.1, as well as invites to as many parties as possible.For telecoms executive Sam Darwish, however, survival took on a more litera…
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Author: daniel fountainID: 1558816357133808400Sat, 2019-05-25 23:51RIYADH: Oil prices ended last week with the biggest weekly losses of the year. Brent fell below the $70 psychological barrier to $68.69 a barrel, while WTI dropped under $60 to $5…
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Author: Zaynab KhojjiID: 1558780370080338200Sat, 2019-05-25 13:32BEIJING: China’s crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia rose 43 percent in April, making the Middle Eastern OPEC kingpin once again the top supplier to the world’s second-biggest e…
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Author: Sat, 2019-05-25 11:36Home rental company Airbnb launched an Arabic version of its global platform this week, in a bid to strengthen its presence in the Middle East and North Africa markets.The US-based home-sharing company, which has ov…
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Fri, 2019-05-24 23:29LONDON: The value of joint Saudi-US contracts rose to $13 billion in the first quarter of 2019, according to a business council report.That marked the highest value of awarded contracts since the first quarter of 2015, the…
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Fri, 2019-05-24 23:16LONDON: Telecoms tower company IHS plans to operate up to 30,000 masts in Saudi Arabia within the next five years, as part of a growth strategy in a country it sees as the “pulsating heart” of the Arab world.The Mauriti…
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Author: ReutersID: 1558691393992292000Fri, 2019-05-24 09:42NEW DELHI: Foreign companies in India have welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election victory for the political stability it brings, but now they need to see him soften a protecti…
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Author: ReutersID: 1558687151522017000Fri, 2019-05-24 08:30TOKYO: Moody’s cut its rating on Nissan by one notch on Friday, citing weak sales in the United States and casting a shadow on the Japanese automaker’s move to improve its business fo…
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Author: Associated PressID: 1558681295951785900Fri, 2019-05-24 06:56BEIJING: China’s state media has unleashed fresh attacks on the US as the tariff war between world’s two largest economies continues.The China Daily newspaper on Friday acc…
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Author: AFPID: 1558678096291686200Fri, 2019-05-24 06:04FORT WORTH, United States: Civil aviation regulators from around the world failed to make a determination Thursday on when Boeing’s popular 737 MAX aircraft can return to the skies after be…
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FDI project numbers and capital investment both saw increases in the Middle East and Africa as a region in 2018, although results were uneven on an individual basis, finds fDi Intelligence.
- 4 days ago, 22 May 19, 4:48am -

Greenfield FDI in the hotels and tourism sector had a bumper year in 2018, with huge increases in project numbers and capital investment, finds The fDi Report 2019.
- 4 days ago, 21 May 19, 11:41am -

Nakheel, one of Dubai’s leading real estate developers, is diversifying to keep up with an evolving tourism climate and changing consumer preferences. Alex Irwin-Hunt & Sebastian Shehadi report.
- 30 days ago, 26 Apr 19, 8:06am -

The Middle East is now the fourth largest free zone host region in the world, says the World Free Zones Organization. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
- 32 days ago, 24 Apr 19, 10:31am -

Israel is balancing increased Chinese investment with US suspicions surrounding Chinese tech. Sebastian Shehadi and Joel Shapson-Coe report.
- 32 days ago, 24 Apr 19, 9:58am -

Despite the government's drastic reform of its mining laws, Tanzania has retained an allure to foreign investors, helped in no small part by the country's thriving economy and abundance of natural resources. Jason Mitchell reports.
- 34 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 11:16am -

Côte d’Ivoire's economy has been booming in recent years, and the investors have been flocking in. However, elections in 2020 bring with them the potential to shake the country's stability, as Adrienne Klasa reports.
- 34 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 11:15am -

Finance minister Goodall Gondwe tells Jason Mitchell that Malawi needs to step up its marketing efforts to realise its full FDI potential and make the most of its abundant natural resources. 
- 38 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 7:00am -

Botswana is a small, landlocked African country, making it a difficult sell to investors. However, as minister of investment Bogolo Joy Kenewendo tells Adrienne Klasa, its moves to diversify its mineral-rich economy will open up a swathe of opportuni…
- 38 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 7:00am -

Educating local talent, investing in regional start-ups and financing domestic R&D facilities are crucial to the Middle East and Africa's successful Industry 4.0 strategy, writes Mazdak Rafaty. 
- 38 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 7:00am -

US president undercuts his national security adviser ahead of talks in Japan
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Deal would allow gas-rich Gulf state to enter English football for the first time
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Carmakers seek to join forces in deal that could see FCA one day join broader alliance
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Prosecutor says 120 investigators and technical experts on bomber’s trail
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Brexit set to dominate campaign to lead Tory party
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Central bank fears uncertainty could spark destabilising outflows from mutual funds
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Rezo’s video voicing German youth anger draws 7m viewers and leaves party struggling to respond
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Ryan Graves’ departure signals first management shake-up since market listing
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Investors wait for resolution to impasse between Washington and Beijing
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Lawyers caution that complex talks to resolve sexual harassment claims could still fall apart
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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.
- 27 Nov 15, 1:24am -

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…
- 26 Nov 15, 1:34pm -

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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DEEP IN PITS hewn from the earth dozens of teenage boys slam their hammers into the rock. Other men pan the crushed ore by hand in tubs filled with water and mercury. Uganda does not have many gold mines and most, like this one in Busia, in the east…
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THE ORANGE helmets are a burst of colour in the desert, where drab aluminium potlines stretch for almost a mile across the sands. Workers at Alba, Bahrain’s aluminium smelter, are finishing a $3bn expansion. A country of just 1.5m people will soon…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

VENDORS SELLING mobile-phone airtime and money-changers swinging bags of Congolese francs mill around beneath a billboard in Kinshasa that reads “Kabila forever”. It reminds people that Joseph Kabila, who stepped down in January as president of t…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

THE KURDS have their own name for northern Syria: Rojava, which means where the sun sets. For decades that seemed fitting. Arab nationalists pushed them off their land and suppressed their language. Then came the jihadists of Islamic State (IS). War…
- 3 days ago, 23 May 19, 10:52am -

AS MUSLIMS HAVE for centuries, Ahmed Toufiq broke his Ramadan fast by nibbling a date while the call to prayer echoed across the Nile. Then he turned to the heaped plates in front of him. He made short work of a fragrant lentil soup, but his pace sl…
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BY AFRICAN STANDARDS, Rwanda is an agricultural success story. Yields of bananas, beans, cassava and maize—the four main crops by land area—have all risen substantially since the turn of the century. Over the five years to 2017, the country’s m…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

WHEN DONALD TRUMP hired John Bolton to be his national security adviser, he reportedly joked that the mustachioed hawk was “going to get us into a war”. It is easy to see why. When serving under George W. Bush, Mr Bolton embellished intelligence…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

“THIS IS A vote that reminds us of 1994,” said Cyril Ramaphosa as he cast his ballot on May 8th in Soweto, a township on the edge of Johannesburg. According to South Africa’s president, voters “were just as excited as this” 25 years ago. If…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

“IF I HAD $100,000, I’d spend it all on sheep,” says Abib Seck, a sheep-dealer. Such enthusiasm is not unusual in Senegal. People there adore sheep. Not only are they delicious, they can also be status symbols. Every year during Tabaski, a reli…
- 10 days ago, 16 May 19, 11:13am -

THE GREAT victory train clattered across eight time zones and back before groaning into a military-exhibition ground outside Moscow last month. It pulled car after car of trophies from Syria, as well as wagonloads of patriotism and conspiracy theori…
- 13 days ago, 12 May 19, 6:42pm -

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel to discuss threats the country faces from Iran and its allies, a visit that buttresses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign message as he seeks to win a fifth term in April 9 elections.
- 66 days ago, 20 Mar 19, 8:39pm -

President Trump said the Islamic State extremist group would suffer its final territorial defeat by the evening, a prediction that came as U.S.-backed local fighters in Syria said the battle had entered its final stages.
- 66 days ago, 20 Mar 19, 7:05pm -

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.
- 68 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 4:10am -

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.
- 68 days ago, 18 Mar 19, 6:03pm -

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…
- 68 days ago, 18 Mar 19, 4:31pm -