Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Crisis-hit Lebanon — which has no president and is ruled by a caretaker government — will also have to go without a central bank chief from next week, says the country’s deputy premier. No successor has been named for the embattled bank governor, Riad Salameh, 73, who steps down after three decades [&he...
Rome, Italy (AFP): Italy hosted Mediterranean leaders in Rome on Sunday at a conference aimed at extending an EU-backed deal with Tunisia to curb the arrival of migrants on European shores. The summit convened by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni laid the foundations for a fund to finance investment projects and support border contro...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Russia has said that it understands the concerns African nations may have after Moscow left the Ukrainian grain deal, promising to ensure deliveries to countries in need. Those countries in need would receive the necessary assurances at a summit later this month, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergey Vershinin told journ...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AFP): Global environment protection organization Greenpeace has praised a “risky” UN-led operation to transfer oil from a rusting Yemen tanker, but warned the threat of environmental catastrophe cannot be ruled out until the operation ends. Last Sunday, the UN-owned Nautica arrived off war-torn Yemen to...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AFP): Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended a Gulf trip aimed at securing investments by signing agreements worth more than $50 billion in the United Arab Emirates, Emirati state media said Wednesday. His tour, which also included stops in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, saw Erdogan preside over the signing o...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan have signed a tripartite agreement to connect the three countries through a rail network. The joint protocol for the Trans-Afghan project, which aims to connect Uzbekistan and Pakistan’s railway networks through Afghanistan, was signed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad in the ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Russia on Monday suspended the Black Sea grain deal, the Kremlin said. “The Black Sea agreements ceased to be valid today. As the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin) said earlier, the deadline is July 17. Unfortunately, the part relating to Russia in this Black Sea agreement has not been implemented so […...
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP): Among meandering alleyways in the historic market of Lebanon’s southern city of Sidon, cobblers and menders are doing brisk business, as an economic crisis revives demand for once-fading trades. At Ahmed al-Bizri’s shoe repair store, nestled among old stone arches and a crowded warren of shops and stalls, work...
Aboard Nautica , Yemen (AFP): The United Nations has handed over a vessel that will take on board oil from a decaying tanker in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, an operation aimed at averting an environmental catastrophe. The handover ceremony took place aboard the Nautica, which is being renamed the Yemen, in the presence […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA): Libya said Sunday that production from two oil fields south of the country has resumed after the release of a former finance minister. Production at El-Sharara and El-Feel oilfields was shut on Thursday following the detention of former Finance Minister Faraj Boumtari. In a statement, the Libyan Oil Ministry confirmed that...
