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BEIRUT (AA) – Depositors stormed at least four banks in Lebanon on Tuesday to demand access to their savings amid a severe economic crisis in the country. The Association of Depositors, an NGO that advocates rights of depositors, said a retired officer stormed an LBC Bank branch in the town of Chtoura in eastern Lebanon […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned a proposed maritime border agreement with Lebanon. Netanyahu, who is the head of the right-wing Likud Party, on Sunday accused Prime Minister Yair Lapid of trying to hide the details of the deal from the public. Lapid seeks “to authorize the agreement without a debate [&h...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Lebanon has received a letter from US envoy Amos Hochstein containing an “offer” on a maritime border deal with Israel over an area claimed by Lebanon, rich in offshore gas fields. Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with the US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea “who delivered a written offer from the US [...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni government has signed a deal worth $200 million with Saudi Arabia to provide fuel to war-torn Yemen. Under the deal, the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) will provide 250,000 metric tons of oil derivatives to Yemen, the state news agency Saba reported. Saba said the deal […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has announced new sanctions targeting an international network of financiers and shipping companies that allegedly help Iran sell hundreds of millions of dollars of oil in violation of restrictions. The sales were made to purchasers in South and East Asia and the US black-listings target Iranian brokers and sever...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Senator Ishaq Dar took oath as Pakistan’s finance minister on Wednesday to fix the country’s struggling economy. President Arif Alvi administered the oath to the new finance minister at the President’s Office in the capital Islamabad, state-run Pakistan Television reported. Dar, who returned from Lond...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AFP): With the cost of living surging, free hot bread distribution for the poor has been introduced in Dubai, a rich Gulf emirate where Arab millionaires rub shoulders with impoverished hard-working migrants. The city of skyscrapers soaring above the desert, which imports almost all of its food, has been impacted b...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Amid the economic crisis facing the country, Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail resigned hours after an alleged conversation between top ruling party leaders against him surfaced on social media. “In a meeting with Mian Nawaz Sharif and PM Shehbaz Sharif today, I have verbally resigned as Finance Minister. I will ...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon’s first grain ship departing from Ukraine under the historic Istanbul grain export deal arrived at Tripoli port in northern Lebanon on Monday. Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Ostosh said Ukraine seeks to prevent an entire food crisis despite the negative impact of the Russian war on the country. He said that app...
Casablanca, Morocco (AFP): A Moroccan prisoner of war released as part of an exchange between Moscow and Kyiv said he wanted to draw attention to the “struggle” of Ukraine as he returned home Saturday. “I want to draw attention to the difficult situation in Ukraine and the struggle of its people in this painful time,” [...
