- The official annual rate of consumer price increases reached 79.6 percent in July compared to 78.6 percent in June. Turkey...
Turkey now has a real interest rate of negative 64.4 percent the lowest in the world by a substantial margin.
This means that Turks have a strong incentive to spend as much as they can before their liras lose even more value.
- The demonstrations were drained of momentum by a severe economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, before the monster explosion presented...
International powers have yet to provide Lebanon with satellite images or reports drafted by foreign experts who participated in preliminary investigations
The August 4 mega-blast, blamed on a fire that ignited tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at Beirut harbor, was one of the largest non-nuclear detonations ever recorded
- Yemen has been gripped by conflict since the Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014, triggering...
Hundreds of thousands have died, directly from fighting as well as indirectly, and millions have been displaced in what the UN has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis
US President Joe Biden welcomed the extension and the "unprecedented calm" that has prevailed in the war-torn country during recent months
- The trip by Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency and the highest-profile elected US official to visit...
The trip by Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency and the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, has ignited a diplomatic firestorm
China's Customs Administration said Wednesday it would suspend some citrus fruits and fish imports from Taiwan
- After cutting production in 2020 in response to falling prices during the Covid pandemic, OPEC+ began to modestly raise production...
Craig Erlam, analyst at OANDA trading platform, said the OPEC+ meeting will show whether "President Biden has any influence in the cartel at all."
Biden made a controversial trip to Saudi Arabia in July in part to convince the kingdom to loosen the production taps to stabilise the market and curb rampant inflation
- Two weeks after US President Joe Biden made the visit to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the UAE will...
The State Department said the value of the missiles and attendant equipment, trainings and parts is $3.05 billion
The United States will sell THAAD surface-to-air missile systems to the UAE for $2.25 billion
- The prosecutor found that the grain aboard the vessel belonged to a Syrian merchant, the judicial official said.
Ukraine's embassy in Lebanon had claimed that grain aboard the ship was loaded from a region occupied by Russian forces.
Investigations failed to prove--Laodicea--which docked in the northern port city of Tripoli last week, carried stolen goods.
- A top official from Iraq's Sadrist movement called Tuesday on followers who have occupied parliament for four days to move...
Supporters of Sadr -- whose political bloc in October won the largest share of seats in elections -- stormed parliament on Saturday to protest against a rival faction's pick for PM
Nearly 10 months on from the elections, the oil-rich country still has no government and no new prime minister or president.
- The sanctions block any assets the entities own under US jurisdiction and ban US persons or entities from doing business...
The US government blacklisted six companies Monday that it said helped Iran export petrochemicals to East Asia.
Three Hong Kong-based trading companies and one United Arab Emirates firm were hit with US Treasury sanctions.
- The USA has alleged Ebrahim Raisi was involved in mass execution of detained leftists in 1988 while he was chief...
Raisi has been under US sanctions since November 2019 for "complicity in serious human rights violations."
Washington accuses Ebrahim Raisi of playing a leading role in mass executions of detained leftists in 1988.





















