Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Sitting on the side of a Jakarta road anxiously waiting for his phone to ping, driver Muhammad Ridwan says it is now barely worth hurtling through thick smog every day to ferry passengers. A 30 percent hike in fuel prices spurred hundreds of drivers of the most popular ride-hailing apps to hold […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s government and the country’s powerful UGTT union has signed a deal boosting public sector salaries, three months after a strike that paralysed the country. The deal involves a five percent annual hike to public sector wages every year until 2025. The head of the UGTT, Noureddine Taboubi, told reporte...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China and Uzbekistan on Thursday signed agreements worth $15 billion in trade, investment, and financial and technical cooperation. The deals were inked during a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samark...
ANKARA (AA) – A higher number of Indian Muslims are jobless and face discrimination in accessing salaried jobs and income through self-employment compared to their non-Muslim fellow citizens, according to the UK’s independent charitable organizations focusing on global poverty alleviation. In rural areas, unemployment among Muslims increased b...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that gas deliveries to Pakistan are possible through Central Asian infrastructure – Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. He met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. During the mee...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about expanding a recently-brokered deal that opened Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to grain exports. Putin has threatened to restrict what is known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative after it was signed in July to allevi...
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – Five Somali ministers have accused the central government of failing to release $9.6 million in relief funds received from the UAE to begin humanitarian operations in the country. As famine is expected in parts of Somalia between October and December this year, ministers from the states of South West, Galmudug, Pun...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday staged a protest to demand their rights to the natural gas off the coast of Gaza and to establish a waterway to link Gaza with the world via the Mediterranean Sea. At the invitation of Palestinian groups in Gaza, Palestinians held an event in the […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – An armed woman broke into a bank in the Lebanese capital Beirut demanding access to her savings to treat her sick sister. A woman carrying a gun entered BLOM bank and threatened to set herself on fire to withdraw her own money, eyewitnesses said. The government-run National News Agency said the […]
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The makeup of Spain’s natural gas suppliers has radically shifted over the last year, according to data released by the operator of the country’s national gas grid. The most striking difference has been the US rising to become Spain’s top natural gas supplier. Its liquified natural gas (LNG), shipped to Spain […]...
