KUWAIT: Kuwait's state budget for next fiscal year envisages a spending increase of about 13 percent from the current year's plan, state news agency KUNA reported on Monday as the oil-rich state grappled with a wave of industrial unrest.
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VIENNA: Turmoil in Libya and Yemen ate into earnings at oil and gas group OMV in the third quarter and it was impossible to predict when production will normalize, the Austrian company said on Wednesday.
OMV said last month it could take up to (...)
VIENNA: Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it would hold Iran accountable for any hostile actions and condemned what it called a "dastardly" plot to kill the Arab kingdom's envoy to Washington.
Iran, rejecting US accusations made on Tuesday, denies (...)
TUNIS/CAIRO: The tanks parked beside Tunisia's tourism ministry and the capital's main souk were probably not quite what travel agents had in mind when they said better security was the way to tempt back holiday makers.
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VIENNA: The United States and leading European nations accused Iran on Wednesday of trying to intimidate the U.N.'s atomic watchdog, in a deepening dispute over Tehran's barring of some nuclear inspectors.
The U.S. envoy to the International (...)
VIENNA: The UN nuclear agency said on Thursday its top inspector Olli Heinonen, head of investigations into Iran and Syria, has resigned for personal reasons after nearly 30 years at the Vienna-based organization.
Heinonen, 63, is head of the (...)