Parents are cancelling the enrolment of their children due to the financial repercussions they faced under the crisis …
Time to hold Jordan accountable
If the regime in Amman continues to forbid Jews and Christians to pray freely on the Temple Mount and fails to extradite terrorist Ahlam Tamimi to the U.S., Washington should stop treating it with kid …
ITFC seals $8mln Murabaha financing facility with Uzbekistan’s Trustbank
signed an $8 million worth of Murabaha-structured line of trade finance with Trustbank, a private joint-stock bank in Uzbekistan. The financing aims to minimise the impact of COVID-19 by supporting …
GE Inks $1.2B Deals With Iraq To Improve Country’s Power Infrastructure
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) announced Wednesday it had signed two agreements with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity worth $1.2 billion to bolster and maintain the middle-eastern country’s …
General Electric Shares Gain On $1.2 Billion Iraq Power Contracts
GE Power, one of the group’s more stable divisions, has signed two contracts with the government of Iraq to maintain its current grid and link its transmission network with Jordan.
Iraq Yields $100 Mn in Revenues after Expelling Militias from Frontier
Iraq’s Border Ports Authority announced record financial revenues from customs duties as a result of the measures taken by the government of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi at all border crossings …
Turkey Avoids Interest-Rate Hike
Turkey left its policy interest rates unchanged on Thursday, risking greater volatility in the lira as the central bank looks for a backdoor way of containing the currency’s weakness.The Monetary …
China’s Outstanding Loans to Small Businesses up 27.5% Year-On-Year by End-July
Interest rates on those loans averaged 5.27% in July, 0.91 percentage points lower than a year ago, the People’s Bank of China said in … personal finance, careers, investing, real estate and …
Israel’s most ancient soapery unearthed in Bedouin town
Soaps created in the workshop over 1,000 years ago were made of olive oil and saltwort ashes and were left to dry in the desert sun.
Syria could have 2 million cases of coronavirus by Aug. 31
“Many providers prefer to avoid the risk of dealing with Syria. That’s why there is a need for parallel structures and financial channels that are monitored and secured to directly support civil …