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Israel has given preliminary approval for the development of a gas field off the Gaza Strip. If concluded, the agreement would be a boost for the Palestinian economy. Announcing the move on the Gaza Marine project, Prime Minister…

Abdel-Sanad Yamama, the leader of Egypt’s opposition Wafd Party, has been nominated to run in the upcoming presidential elections. The polls are scheduled for 2024 and Wafd is participating for the first time since 2011. Ninety…

Iraq unveiled on Sunday a 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy, as the war-ravaged country works to recover from abroad antiquities looted from its territory. The tablet — whose text is written in cuneiform, the Babylonian…

Major investment opportunities in the areas of tourism and culture, technology and clean energy are up for discussion when top officials from Saudi Arabia and France meet during a business forum in Paris this week. The French-Saudi…

Egypt’s macroeconomic indicators have improved as the North African country recorded a primary budget surplus of 1.2 percent of the gross domestic product during the first 11 months of the current fiscal which ends on June 31. During a…

A video of a Jordanian father who joined his daughter for her school performance after seeing her dance alone on stage has gone viral this week. The little girl was seen standing alone at the center of the stage at Jawhrat Al-Marfa…

Saudi Arabian football has changed, and is changing the face of Asian football with it. Few could have predicted the pace of change within the country as recently as six months ago, but the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo accelerated plans…

suggests this month’s destruction of the huge Kakhovka dam in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine resulted from an inside explosion set off by Russia, the New York Times said. Citing engineers and explosive experts, the newspaper said…

A Philippine ferry carrying 120 passengers and crew members caught fire at sea on Sunday and a coast guard vessel was deployed to rescue those onboard and try to extinguish the flames, coast guard officials said. The M/V Esperanza Star…

At least 11 people have been killed in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region on Friday, according to the state’s authorities. The storm caused torrential rains and helicopter…