Middle East
Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone signs $500 mln contract for container handling terminal
Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone has signed a $500 million contract with the Suez Canal Container Company (SCCT) to establish a second ...G20 considers resolution condemning Russian invasion
Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations were considering a draft resolution on Tuesday in which most members strongly condemn the ...Netanyahu set for comeback, says on brink of “big” election win
Israel’s former premier Benjamin Netanyahu was poised to return to power, saying on Wednesday that his right-wing camp was on the cusp ...Thousands of workers evicted in Qatar’s capital ahead of World Cup
Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the same areas in the centre of the capital Doha where ...Qatar population surges 13.2% in year leading up to World Cup
Qatar’s population has surged by 13.2% over the last year, official data showed, as the tiny Gulf Arab state recruits thousands of ...Women students tell Iran’s president to ‘get lost’ as unrest rages
Female students in Tehran chanted “get lost” as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged ...Poverty in Lebanon’s ‘city of billionaires’ drives deadly migration
In the city from which Lebanon’s richest politicians hail, the poorest residents once again mourn their dead. Among them, Mustafa Misto, a ...Internet restricted in Iran as crackdown grows on spreading protests
Iranian authorities said three people had been killed on Tuesday as anger at the death of a woman detained by the morality ...Iran’s Khamenei gives second televised speech after report of illness
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke for the second time in less than a week in a televised speech on Wednesday ...End of COVID pandemic is ‘in sight’ -WHO chief
The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said ...














