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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.

At least 19 Palestinians and 4 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank since July (File Archive/AFP)

December 19th, 2013 - 08:13 GMT

Israeli soldiers kill another Palestinian in West Bank within 24 hours

Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has called on Assad to refrain from talking about his re-election prospects ahead of the Syrian peace conference in Geneva (Courtesy of Naharnet)

December 19th, 2013 - 07:35 GMT

Russia issues rare criticism of Syria's Assad

An Egyptian supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood holds the portraits of deposed president Mohamed Morsi during a rally outside Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque late on July 7, 2013. [AFP]

December 18th, 2013 - 01:43 GMT

Egypt: Morsi charged with 'terrorist acts'

"Now class, we are going to talk about our feelings..." A rehab class for militants in Saudi Arabia (Photo courtesy of Kate Brooks for Time)

December 18th, 2013 - 10:44 GMT

Post-Guantanamo, Saudi militants to paint, talk about their feelings at "terrorist rehab"

If Karzai does not approve the U.S. security agreement, there will be no foreign troops on Afghan soil post-2014. (AFP/File)

December 18th, 2013 - 09:49 GMT

Official: NATO planning for Afghan pullout by spring if security agreement fails

Western powers have previously said that Assad would have no future role in Syria's government, but now they seem to be changing their stances (File Archive/AFP)

December 18th, 2013 - 06:19 GMT

Western powers backtrack on Assad stance, call for president's role in Syria's transitional government

According to the research team, there is also the possibility that the camels and humans could be "infected from a third as yet unknown source" (File Archive/Shutterstock)

December 18th, 2013 - 05:15 GMT

Camels ask for MERS(y): new study confirms animals' link to disease

Sunday’s hearings were postponed to Dec. 26 after defence lawyers sought time to review evidence presented by the prosecution.

December 17th, 2013 - 10:14 GMT

Corruption crackdown: Nine Omani officials, executives taken in

Syrian regime forces launched fresh air raids on Aleppo Sunday (Mohammed Al Khatieb/AFP)

December 17th, 2013 - 05:20 GMT

Ceasefire in Syria "a must" before Geneva talks, says UN leader

The UN sent its first humanitarian aid airlift into Syria Sunday and is planning to send another one within the next twelve days (Safin Hamed/AFP)

December 16th, 2013 - 12:29 GMT

UN 2014 appeal for Syria largest in organization's history at $6.5 billion

The Danish vessel that will be used to remove Syria's chemical weapons from Latakia arrived in Cyprus last week (Yiannis Kourtoglou/AFP)

December 16th, 2013 - 12:10 GMT

Italy to provide port for Syrian chemical weapons destruction

Bahrain's oil investments have contributed to 45 percent of the country's output growth this year (File Archive)

December 16th, 2013 - 11:04 GMT

Bahrain beats forecast for economic growth in third quarter