- "The Russia-Ukraine war has added further fuel to the blazing rate of inflation," Kathy Bostjancic of Oxford Economics said.
Consumer price index has hit 8.5 percent over the 12 months to March, considered the biggest jump in last 4 decades
Central bank Governor said that fall of Ukraine war "probably skews risks to the upside in inflation"
- Qatar Food Safety and Environmental Health Department Director Wassen Abdullah Al Bakr said that the agreement would enhance food safety...
Qatar Food Safety and Environmental Health Department Director Wassen Abdullah Al Bakr said that the agreement would enhance food safety in Qatar
It provides a framework for enhanced cooperation in food safety research, particularly food contaminant and risk management analyses
- President Joe Biden for the first time Tuesday accused Vladimir Putin's forces of committing genocide in Ukraine, where Russia was...
"Yes, I called it genocide," Biden told reporters, hours after employing the term during a speech in Iowa -- its first use by a member of his administration
Biden's accusation came as Moscow was feared to be readying a massive onslaught across Ukraine's east that Washington warned might involve chemical weapons
- A man in a gas mask shot 10 people on a packed New York subway train during rush-hour on Tuesday,...
There were 40 to 50 passengers inside the coach at the time of the incident and they began crowding towards the front
The NYPD has urged people to stay clear of the area, urging witnesses to contact a tip line with any information
- Oman has become the 100th country to ratify a 2006 treaty that protects the rights, pay and conditions of seafarers. The...
Maritime Labor Convention has become a worldwide reference for the maritime industry and a pillar of international maritime rules and regulations since its signing in 2006.
Guy Ryder, the ILO Director-General, said Oman, a longstanding maritime nation, has set an example for other countries in the region.
- Maritime traffic between Spain and Morocco is set to resume Tuesday following the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two...
Embroiled in a dispute with Spain over the territory of Western Sahara, Morocco upheld the blockade between some of the largest ports on the Mediterranean for over two years.
The maritime borders reopened last summer -- but connections between Tangiers and Spain's Algeciras and Tarifa ports have remained cut.
- The plan includes allocating interest-free loan packages to farmers through the Agricultural Credit Corporation.
The plan includes allocating interest-free loan packages to farmers through the Agricultural Credit Corporation
Jordan Minister of Agriculture, Khaled Hneifat said the ministry will provide seeds to grow wheat and barley in alignment with the climatic condition of the cultivation areas
- Between 1864 and 1897, as French colonial troops advanced through Algeria, 2,100 people were tried by special or military courts...
They were sent in chains around 18,500 kilometers (11,500 miles) to the other side of the world, to a penal colony on the Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia.
Those who survived the tough journey became known as the "straw hats" -- a nod to the convicts' headgear as they worked in the blazing sun.





















