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  • IMF ready to assist Baghdad: Central Bank of Iraq

    Date: 2020-09-23 07:57:21 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:8599200

    BAGHDAD, Sept 23 (MENA) - The IMF has expressed readiness to help Iraq by extending technical assistance and advice, the Central Bank of Iraq announced on Wednesday. A Central Bank statement carried by Sumaria News said Governor Mostafa Ghaleb ....

  • Hariri agrees to naming independent Shiite finance minister

    Date: 2020-09-22 19:06:49 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:71 - ID:8598819

    BEIRUT, Sept 22 (MENA) - Lebanon's former prime minister Saad Hariri said that he decided to help PM-designate Mustafa Adib find a solution to the deadlock over the finance minister's portfolio by naming an independent minister from the Shiite ....

  • Morocco confirms 2,227 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2020-09-22 18:40:08 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:8598876

    RABAT, Sept 22 (MENA) - Morocco’s Ministry of Health has recorded 2,227 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 105,346. Morocco also reported an additional 1,725 recoveries from COVID-19 in the ....

  • Lebanon reports 851 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2020-09-22 17:36:40 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:65 - ID:8598783

    BEIRUT, Sept 22 (MENA) - The Lebanese Public Health Ministry issued on Tuesday its daily report in which it announced 851 new coronavirus cases, 841 of them for locals and 10 for arrivals, raising the total number of infections to 30,838. The ....

  • Bahraini CP phones Israeli PM

    Date: 2020-09-22 17:26:53 GMT - Bahrain - Arab world - SN:63 - ID:8598766

    MANAMA, Sept 22 (MENA) - Bahraini Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa phoned on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported. During the ....

  • Jordan reports 634 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2020-09-22 16:39:46 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:58 - ID:8598702

    AMMAN, Sept 22 (MENA) - A total of 634 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Jordan on Tuesday, 627 of which are local cases, bringing the total number of cases since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis to 5,679. According to Petra news ....

  • Explosion at Ain Qana inflicts big damage to house building

    Date: 2020-09-22 15:37:50 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:8598490

    BEIRUT, Sept 22 (MENA) - The explosion that occurred in a residential building in the Lebanese town of Ain Qana, located in South Lebanese province of Nabatiyeh, caused a big damage to the building which was almost collapsed. No information are ....

  • Egypt offers all technical expertise, potentials to help solve "Safer" oil tanker crisis: Minister

    Date: 2020-09-22 15:37:10 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:8598411

    CAIRO, Sept 22 (MENA) - Minister of Environment Yassmin Fouad said Egypt offers all its technical expertise and potentials to help find a fundamental solution for the crisis of the FSO Safer, an oil tanker moored off the Red Sea. Egypt has ....

  • Arms depot of Iran-backed Hezbollah explodes in south Lebanon, source says

    Date: 2020-09-22 15:35:43 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:8598466

    BEIRUT, Sept 22 (MENA) - An arms cache belonging to Iranian proxy group Hezbollah blew up in Lebanon on Tuesday because of a technical error, Al Arabiya quoted a security source as saying. An explosion shook a Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold in ....

  • Kuwait: 719 COVID-19 cases registered in past 24 hours

    Date: 2020-09-22 13:28:56 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:8598303

    KUWAIT CITY, Sept 22 (MENA) - The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infected 719 people in Kuwait during the past 24 hours, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad announced on Tuesday. Dr. Al-Sanad declared, in a statement ....

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