Kuwait : Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met here on Wednesday with Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Sarraj. During the meeting, both sides discussed the latest developments in the...
Tehran : Accusing the US of trying to push India away from Iran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that Washington cannot stop Tehran from exporting oil and warned that no crude will be exported from the Persian Gulf if Iranian oil sales were blocked....
Jerusalem : Israel Chemicals company (ICL) filed a $300 million lawsuit on Monday in an Israeli court against US-based technology giant IBM for a failed project. ICL, a manufacturing company headquartered in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, produces fertilisers including...
Doha : Qatar on Monday announced that it intends to withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after nearly 60 years of membership in order to focus on its plans to increase natural gas production. The planned January 1, 2019, withdrawal...
By Rajiv Dogra, The November 23 attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi by Baloch separatists brought into global view, once more, the Baloch trauma. The Balochistan Liberation Army, which claimed responsibility for the attack, had warned the Chinese authorities...
Paris : A Bangladeshi activist for the disabled, Vashkar Bhattacharjee, and Chinese ICT company Tencent will be awarded the Unesco/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in a ceremony at the Unesco headquarters...
The final day of the conference saw a one-on-one interview with Kingdom of Bahrain’s Minister of Oil, key panel sessions focusing on global economic outlook and its impact on the regional economy and the launch of a key financial intelligence report by Refinitiv....
Geneva : UN officials and agencies on Tuesday spoke of exceptional levels of drought in Afghanistan affecting millions of people in the country. With 3.6 million living with chronic food insecurity, Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative for the UN Mission in...
Global financial experts converged at the landmark 25th anniversary edition of the World Islamic Banking Conference that spearheaded a host of discussions focusing on “Islamic Finance & Sustainable Economic Growth in the Age of Disruption”. Manama, Kingdom of...
Manama : A new oil pipeline was launched on Monday during a ceremony that was attended by leaders from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Bahrain's King Hamad praised strong ties between the two countries as he launched the AB-4 pipeline to celebrate over 70 years of bilateral...