The United Arab Emirates will slash prices of petrol and diesel from September 1 amid the easing of Covid pandemic restrictions.

Iraq’s populist Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr on Friday reversed his decision to boycott the October elections and said his movement would take part in order to help “end corruption."

The UN leaders released a joint statement in which they condemned what they called the ‘crisis of vaccine inequity,’ among countries.

Driven by an increase in net loans and return on equity in the second quarter, Saudi Arabian banks are sitting pretty as the region’s economy continued its rebound from the Covid pandemic.

Four and five-star hotels in Oman may open meeting and celebration halls, but must follow certain restrictions.

Saudi economy may perform better this year than forecast earlier with the continual recovery of the non-oil industry from the blows of the coronavirus pandemic.

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman said the Treasury had transferred the amount to the public hospitals.

Saudi Arabia has lifted the ban on the entry of foreigners from 20 countries, six months after the kingdom declared it to contain the spread of Covid-19.

Fully-vaccinated passengers from 21 countries can now travel to Oman, according to a new circular issued by the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, which took the decision by consulting several stakeholders.

CinemaCon is taking place despite fears about the Delta variant that have caused some pandemic restrictions to be reimposed on Hollywood in California

Managing Director IMF Kristalina Georgieva said the largest allocation in history, about $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights, was a “significant shot in the arm for the world” to combat the economic distress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. She said the IMF was encouraging rich countries that receive SDRs to...

Rights groups have decried an “education catastrophe”, with more than a million children in Lebanon out of school since the country’s Covid-19 outbreak began in February last year

In a sign of normalcy returning, hotels across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have reported a significant rise in occupancy rates in the first half of this year.

The ministry said the deaths of 684 people in the past 24 hours brought the total number of fatalities to 102,038

Saudi Arabia has seen a sudden growth in the size of freelance workforce with the number doubling in the first half of this year as the economy shows more signs of recovery from the pandemic.

Emirates has announced that from October 1 it will undo all changes to employee pay structure that it undertook to save the airline from going under last year when Covid swept through the whole world.

The relaxation will see the reopening of public buildings, malls, and restaurants, as well as resumption of public events.

Iran is currently experiencing its worst wave of new Covid-19 infections, in what is the third wave of the pandemic in the country.

The measures, announced Sunday, require vaccination certificates or negative coronavirus tests to enter a range of public spaces

A new test feature will allow some Twitter users mark tweets as "misleading".

Confined to homes for more than 18 months by the coronavirus pandemic, Saudi pupils are all set to be back at school with the Covid paraphernalia of face masks, bottles of sanitizer, in addition to books and notebooks. 

Even as the pandemic would affect businesses, the mall owners are so confident of staying afloat that they are going ahead with their plans to expand their operations.

The country of 83 million has seen upwards of 98,000 deaths from Covid-19, making it already the Middle East's deadliest outbreak

Health authorities acknowledge the official figures underestimate the country's real toll

The Islamic republic is struggling to contain what officials have called a "fifth wave" of the virus caused by the highly infectious Delta variant

The loan is expected to be used to provide for stimulus packages to for workers and create new jobs.

The profit absorbed a one-off fraud-related impairment in 2020.

Israel already requires children aged 12 and over to be tested for Covid in order to enter many public places

The Islamic republic's Covid cases and fatalities have surged in recent weeks, in what officials have said is a "fifth wave" caused by the highly infectious Delta variant

The trial will test the efficacy of combining an "inactivated" vaccine made by China's Sinovac with a DNA-based one developed by US pharmaceutical company Inovio

An aircraft loaded with the supplies, which also included 600,000 injection needles, left the UAE for Comoros on Tuesday.

Egypt has received its first shipment of J&J vaccine to inoculate Egyptians against Covid. The Ministry of Health stated that 261,600 doses of the J&J vaccine were received at Cairo International Airport.

Iran registered 39,619 new infections in the 24 hours to Sunday, taking the total since the pandemic started to 4,158,729

Jessica Alba and Zac Efron are part of Dubai’s latest tourism campaign as it eyes global travel recovery and growth.

The country launches 'Supporting Our Blue Army' initiative that will seafarers overcome the challenges arising out of the pandemic, travel restrictions.

Authorities in the ministry responsible for coordinating foreign pilgrims will from Monday begin "gradually receiving Umrah requests from various countries of the world," the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Iraq is confident about securing a $4 billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after it restarted talks with the world’s top lending institution.

Member states urged to work alongside regional and international stakeholders to devise people-centered policies.

Airlines across the world took a heavy beating from the Covid pandemic lockdown, posting on the whole net losses to the tune of $126.4 billion during 2020.

LVMH -- home to Louis Vuitton, Moet, Fendi, and Kenzo brands among others -- saw first-half sales climb by 11 percent above their pre-pandemic level to 34.1 billion

The car industry has been the most visible victim so far, with many brands forced to slow their output in recent months.

At least 26 CEOs have resigned from the listed companies of Saudi Arabia in just last six months as the stresses of the Covid pandemic have taken a heavy toll on the mental health.

Al-Ibrahim says Saudi Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution will lead the country’s endeavors in providing solutions to global challenges.

The move comes after a 17-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, Riyadh did not announce any lifting of restrictions on the umrah, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

The firm painted an optimistic view for the remainder of the year.

One of Saudi Arabia’s oldest ports in the Red Sea, Yanbu usually sees traffic of cargo and passengers, and even some Hajj pilgrims.

Bahrain’s National Medical Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus said the booster shots help maximize immunity against Covid-19.

Saudi Arabia has officially recorded more than 520,000 cases of coronavirus, of which 8,189 have resulted in deaths.

About 36.8% of the 523 attacks were aimed at corporate entities and their employees during the first half, Russian-origin cybersecurity firm Kaspersky  has pointed out in its latest study.

Bahrain has seen more than 269,000 Covid-19 cases of the pandemic, which has resulted in 1,383 deaths