Tunisia, where the government of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in 2011, scored 6.59 out of ten in the 2020 Democracy index

John Kerry, the US climate envoy, will be in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to participate in the Middle East Green Initiative Summit.

The Lusail Stadium is about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the capital Doha and will host a number of matches during the tournament, including the final.

The fund also warned that the longer-term risk of the uneven recovery could permanently widen wealth, income, and social gaps.

The climate crisis threatens a double blow for the Middle East, experts say, by destroying its oil income as the world shifts to renewables and by raising temperatures to unlivable extremes.

A court in Dubai has directed Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and Nissan Middle East to pay $354 million as compensation to Al Dahana FZCO in the case filed by the latter back in 2019.

HSBC UAE has managed to secure the first green deposit from Saudi British Bank (SABB) through its new program dedicated to supporting sustainable initiatives.

The Middle East’s real estate sector may benefit from the return of global population movement to pre-pandemic levels in 2024.

About 70% CEOs in the Middle East believe that lack of digital skills is a threat to their businesses, a PwC survey has pointed out.

Regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran are showing signs of warming relations and a foreign diplomat in Riyadh has said that the two sides "were on the verge of agreeing" on a deal.

Buyers from Middle East have been scouting London for property deals in prime central London, with sales in the first eight months of 2021 surpassing those for the whole of 2020.

Japan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia Iwai Fumio has lauded Arab News editor-in-chief Faisal Abbas's efforts in transforming the newspaper into a more digital and more global platform with several international editions.

Before the pandemic, around 75 percent of the tourist traffic between Brazil and the Middle East were to and from the UAE, and new direct flights from the UAE to Brazil’s Amazon and the Northeast regions are expected to reattain that traffic.

Brazil's tourism minister has said the country is planning to attract about a million tourists from the Middle East in the next three years by launching more direct flights from the UAE to the Amazon and the northeast regions. Before the pandemic, around 75 percent of the tourist traffic between...

The region’s per-capita GDP is forecast to grow by only 1.1 percent this year after declining by about 5 percent in 2020.

Calais has for years been a rallying point for migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa trying to smuggle across the English Channel to Britain.

Data analysts are already helping businesses set marketing strategies, explains Jadd Elliot Dib, founder and CEO of Pangaea X.

Nearly two years after it set up a base in Bahrain, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has widened its footprint beyond the country and established AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates.

Supply-side issues such as semiconductor scarcity and port backlogs may strain supply chains and weigh on trade in particular areas, but they are unlikely to have large impacts on global aggregates. The biggest downside risks come from the pandemic itself.

Home buyers in the Middle East are looking to settle in rural areas and possess bigger homes than they have at present. This conclusion was drawn in a new survey by global consultancy firm Knight Frank.

Together, the airlines are making millions of reward seats available for frequent flyers to access more than 100 destinations.

The Middle East has 25% of the worldwide gaming audience, followed by Latin America 13.9%, the Asia Pacific 9.2%, Western Europe 4.8%, and North America 4%.

The official postal operator of the UAE made the launches during the 2021 Seamless Middle East.

The discussions, hosted by Iraq as it seeks to act as a regional mediator, were launched under Iran's former, moderate president Hassan Rouhani, who was replaced in August by Raisi.

Dubai's edition, the first in the Middle East, is expected to be the biggest event ever held in the region with estimates of 25 million visitors over its six-month lifespan.

Auto exports to the region are likely to suffer for the next more than a year due to an estimated net production loss of 3.9 million vehicles globally. Besides the automobile sector, e-gadgets, the smartphone and video gaming industries were impacted by the shortage.

Kajiyama Hiroshi, the economy, trade and Industry minister of Japan, said that Middle Eastern countries are important partners in creating a hydrogen-based society.

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Khatibzadeh said the talks were "good" and called for countries to settle regional issues between themselves, without foreign interference. Saudi King Salman on Wednesday expressed hope that talks with Iran would "lead to tangible outcomes to...

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Middle East intends to build its largest headquarters in Riyadh, and hire more than 6,000 staff across the region during the next five years.

Expo 2020 Dubai is the first world expo in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia region.

Except Beirut, most Middle Eastern cities have witnessed growth in double digits in terms of population from 2015 until 2021.

Filipinos living overseas have sent back some $3.8 billion in July with most of the remittances coming from the Middle East.

Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, will invest $15 million across the Middle East during the next three years in order to widen its cloud services market in the region.

Hedge funds in Middle East are abuzz with excitement, posting double digit gains in August this year, after a weak performance in 2020.

The company hires two members for Industrial and Logistics.

The first Middle East Poultry Exhibition and Conference will be held under the theme Contribution of Enhancing Food Security.

This came as part of TIER’s ongoing expansion in the Middle East.

Bahrain has attracted three times the amount of greenfield FDI that might be expected given the size of its economy, reveals a new report.

The Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a force multiplier for existing cyber threats while giving birth to a whole new set of cyber risks. Cyber criminals have switched tactics to exploit the new reality of remote working on personal devices. In 2020, the UAE has experienced around 15.8 million brute...

This is part of its expansion plans in the Middle East region.

With this, the company eyes growth in the MEA region.

His visit to Mosul, a melting pot of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious communities, is seen as an opportunity to renew his support for Christians in the Middle East

The company has been active in Middle East for the past 50 years.

Total trade between the Philippines and UAE already crossed Dh1.3 billion from January to May 2021

Women now make up almost 12 percent of Saxo Bank’s active clients for the market

Leaders from around the MENA region are arriving in Baghdad for a summit meant to lower tensions in the region. The meeting is a chance for Iraq to showcase its recent efforts to be a neutral mediator.

President Kais Saied's also extended an order lifting immunity for the country’s lawmakers.

Besides wooing $74 billion investments, the oil giant has helped the country gain the top position in the Middle East on Kearney's FDI index in 2021 after rising four spots globally.

More than 16.3 million people out of Iran’s 83 million inhabitants have been given a first vaccine dose, but only 5.4 million have received the second,

The term loan facility reduces by $1 billion the size of EGA’s existing seven-year $6.5 billion loan facility signed in 2019, as strong aluminum prices and EGA’s operational performance drive liquidity, the company said.