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The IMFSaid Last Month That Growth in the Non-Oil Sector Was Expected to Accelerate as the Kingdom Moved Ahead With Economic Reforms. (Shutterstock)

September 18th, 2018 - 07:18 GMT

IMF Confident Saudi Can Meet 1.9 Percent GDP Forecast

Saudi Arabia’s economy can achieve an International Monetary Fund forecast of 1.9 percent gross domestic product growth this year, the central bank governor said on Sunday.

Nasr al-Hariri, the head of the Saudi-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC), the main opposition group at attending Syria talks in Geneva. (AFP/File)

February 28th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Syrian opposition seeks Russian support at Geneva talks

A team of researchers have recently helped discover seven new planets. (File photo)

February 27th, 2017 - 07:27 GMT

Saudi helps to discover new earth-like planets

There was no immediate comment from Sisi's office. (AFP/File)

February 27th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Egyptian lawmaker attempting to lift restrictions on presidential re-elections

An image from the first Saudi Arabian Comic-Con, hosted in Jeddah this year. [AFP]

February 26th, 2017 - 02:34 GMT

Saudi ministry condemns recent Comic-Con fest that the government partially sponsored

Misr Italia Deputy Chairman Mohamed al-Assal said his company was no longer in contact with Saudi Arabia over the deal. (Shutterstock)

February 26th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Political tensions hit Egyptian housing deals with Saudi Housing Ministry

Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi called on his government to focus on power, water, roads, health and education in retaken areas. (AFP/File)

February 23rd, 2017 - 05:33 GMT

Saudi Arabia to donate $10B towards Yemen reconstruction

Some importers are not happy with the deal, saying the rate of the dollar that they will have to pay their credit lines with is still too high for them to afford. (File photo)

February 22nd, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Egypt's Central Bank settles with investors over pre-flotation credit lines

Aoun accused Israel's UN ambassador of trying to destabilise southern Lebanon. (AFP/File)

February 19th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

Aoun warns Israel not to threaten Lebanese sovereignty

Mihael Petrelis glances at the appellate court's decision outside a federal appeals court after it ruled against lifting the stay on U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing a temporary immigration ban on seven Muslim-majority nations in San Francisco, California. (AFP/Elijah Nouvelage)

February 17th, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

Trump to defy courts with new travel ban order next week

Once a net gas exporter, Egypt has turned into a major importer in recent years as growing domestic demand outstripped production. (File photo)

February 16th, 2017 - 07:30 GMT

Egypt aims for end of government gas imports by 2018

A U.S. retreat from the internationally backed goal of a future two-state solution alarms Palestinians, who seek a state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/File)

February 15th, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Palestinians warn Trump administration against abandoning two-state solution

Trump and Bibi are expected to meet on Wednesday. (AFP/File)

February 15th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Trump office abandons two-state solution in Israel-Palestine conflict