US President Donald Trump has announced steep tariffs on auto imports and parts, provoking threats of retaliation from trading partners...
Blockchain enhances security and efficiency by decentralizing data storage, and reducing fraud, David Boast tells TRENDS in an exclusive interview.
SAN FRANCISCO, US - Facebook owner Meta is working on a new "text sharing" social media platform, it said Friday, in...Since billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter in October, the influential website has suffered outages, layoffs.
Several advertisers have left the platform over the alleged lack of content moderation in recent times.
ABU DHABI, UAE - In his capacity as the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan...An affiliate of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs, the company will support the emirate’s integrated transport ecosystem.
It will develop transport systems, and contributing to effective and sustainable transport services for citizens and residents.
The 47-year-old ship has not been serviced since Yemen's devastating civil war broke out in 2015 and was left abandoned...UNDP signed a contract to purchase a crude carrier from major tanker company Euronav that will head to Yemen to remove the oil from the beleaguered FSO Safer
The United States, which has contributed $10 million, welcomed the UN announcement and called on other nations as well as private donors to fill the funding gap
Cairo, Egypt - Egypt's official annual headline inflation rate rose in February to 31.9 percent, the highest in five and...The jump in inflation is likely to further squeeze households already struggling with high unemployment and poverty
Soaring inflation follows currency devaluations in March 2022, a prolonged foreign currency shortage, and a backlog of imports
DOHA, QATAR - Just US$1.4 billion in new loans and grants were promised at a UN summit devoted to the world's...The Doha meetings saw Saudi Arabia offer $800 million in loans to Least Developed Countries.
Qatar said it would give $60 million for UN projects and Canada $59 million for vitamin supplements in LDCs.
- Wall Street rose but European stock markets fell as investors brace for US jobs data that they fear could prompt...
The US Federal Reserve raised rates by a quarter basis point in December, lower than previous decisions.
European wholesale natural gas prices dived to the lowest level since August 2021, due to high storage levels.
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's Industrial Production Index increased by 6.8 percent in Jan 2023, compared to Jan 2022,...
The kingdom's General Authority for Statistics said the mining and quarrying activity increased by 3 percent year on year.
The manufacturing activity increased by 19.2 percent, while the electricity and gas supply activity decreased by 3.4 percent.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that extending a deal that allowed grain exports from Ukraine to...Russia's military intervention saw Ukraine's Black Sea ports blocked by warships until a deal was reached for the export of grains.
The UN and Turkey-brokered deal will automatically renew on March 18 unless Russia or Ukraine object.
The launch is part of a year-round program that will allow women filmmakers to collaborate with leading industry professionals and...The launch of AlUla Creates is part of a year-round program that will allow women filmmakers to collaborate with leading industry professionals.
AlUla Creates is part of a wider strategy to develop a film-friendly ecosystem which will include a world-class purpose-built studio.
The growth rate is also the highest in the last decade, with crude oil and natural gas contributing 32.7%, government services 14.2%,...GASTAT said all economic activities achieved positive growth rates during 2022, with crude oil and natural gas contributing 32.7 percent.
Non-oil activities increased by 5.4 percent during 2022, especially transport, storage and communications activities (9.1 percent).
