TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s parliament-appointed government of Fathi Bashagha on Tuesday asked the country’s tax authority to transfer revenues to it instead of the Tripoli-based administration. The request was made in a letter sent by Finance Minister Osama Hammad to the tax authority to transfer revenues to the Benghazi-based Centra...
QAMBAR SHAHDADKOT, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani farmers’ cropland has been under waist-deep water for over a month — quashing hopes of producing ready-to-reap crops, including rice and wheat, and exacerbating fears of acute food shortage in the flood-hit country of 220 million. Drenching monsoon spells and apocalyptic floods have kill...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Transport Minister Nasser Al-Shibli inaugurated the first-ever international airport in the northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday. Located in the southwest of Kirkuk, the airport is capable of receiving 3.5 million passengers annually, according to local officials. It took four years to complete the new airport in Kirkuk. Iraq...
ANKARA (AA) – Some 71 million people have fallen into poverty due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, according to the UN Development Program (UNDP). The impact of the war on food and energy prices is expected to increase the number of poor in the world. According to the UNDP report on the effects of the […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia has struck a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $1.9 billion loan to shore up its economy. “IMF staff and the Tunisian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to support Tunisia’s economic policies with a 48-month arrangement,” the IMF said in a statem...
Saint-Louis, Senegal (AFP): Senegal says it has no intention of leaving lucrative oil and gas in the ground in the name of fighting climate change as recently discovered oil and gas reserves raise hopes of future riches and industrialization. Senegalese President Macky Sall says it would be “an injustice” and he has launched a dipl...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): About 500 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others have been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season. Floods caused by abundant rains and poor infrastructure have affected vast swathes of Africa’s most populous country sparking fears they could worsen...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunis residents are facing a disruption in fuel deliveries that has sparked long queues at petrol stations, the latest economic hardship as Tunisia faces a massive crunch in its public finances. Authorities insist that fuel deliveries are adequate and have blamed motorists in the capital for sparking shortages by flocking...
BEIRUT (AA) – French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna on Friday said TotalEnergies will start the drilling and exploration activities in the Lebanese field after the finalization of the maritime border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel. The French top diplomat made the statement during her talks with Lebanese President Mic...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The decision by Saudi-chaired OPEC+ to dramatically cut global oil production is tantamount to “moral and military support” for Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, the White House has said. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the decision is “certainly” a form of econ...
