Between December 2006 and June 2010, the UN Security Council issued four resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran for trying to manufacture nuclear weapons. After Iran signed a nuclear deal with the five permanent members of the Security Council plus (...)
Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. interests in the Islamic Republic, over possible measures Washington could take against an Iranian fuel shipment to Venezuela, the Mehr news agency reported.
A senior official in U.S. President (...)
An Israeli bank and its Swiss subsidiary agreed to pay over $30 million for their role in conspiring to launder more than $20 million in kickbacks to soccer officials, becoming the first financial institutions implicated in the FIFA scandal to reach (...)
Egypt's exports of marble and granite dropped 31 percent during first quarter of 2020 to $42 million down from $61 million in the correspondent period, according to a report by Egyptian Export Council for Building Materials.
According the report the (...)
Like many nations worldwide, Venezuela has been hit by Covid-19. Nonetheless, to a lesser degree than Europe and the United States. As of 7 April, 165 cases and 65 deaths were reported. To prepare for a potential medical emergency, the Venezuelan (...)
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered most Russians to stay off work until the end of the month as part of a partial economic shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Speaking in a televised address to the nation, Putin said he was (...)
Two tweets by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in which he questioned quarantine measures aimed at containing the novel coronavirus were removed Sunday, on the grounds that they violated the social network's rules, according to Agence (...)
The US government on Thursday indicted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and more than a dozen other top Venezuelan officials on charges of "narco-terrorism," the latest escalation of the Trump administration's pressure campaign aimed at ousting (...)
“The humanitarian and altruistic dimensions of the events could make them the stuff of movie scenes. The crew of the MS Braemar, owned by the British Fred Olsen cruise line, spent several days sailing the Caribbean with passengers aboard showing (...)
Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy.
The Caribbean island has sent its (...)
The Trump administration, scrambling to respond to the global oil price crash, plans to send a senior energy representative to Saudi Arabia, officials said on Friday, while a regulator from the big oil-producing state of Texas took the rare step of (...)
Desperate travelers choked European border crossings on Wednesday after nations implemented strict controls in an attempt to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, creating traffic jams miles long and slowing the passage of trucks carrying critical (...)
Countries around the world on Saturday continued to close borders, impose strict entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large gatherings in efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
Apple Inc said it will close all its retail (...)
انهارت أسواق النفط أمس الثلاثاء، بنسبة 30% لأول مرة منذ عام 29 عاما، بسبب التأثيرات السلبية لفيروس كورونا الذى اجتاح العالم مما يخلق مشكلة وأزمة كبيرة لدى فنزويلا، العضو فى منظمة الدول المصدرة للبترول (أوبك) ومنتج رئيسى للنفط،ومن المتوقع أن تتكبد (...)
اكتشف العلماء أكبر سلحفاة عاشت على كوكب الأرض بطول أكثر من 3 أمتار ووزن أكثر من طن.
ونشرت شبكة "سي إن إن" الأمريكية تقريرا عن تلك السلحفاة العملاقة التي كانت تعيش منذ حوالي 5 إلى 10 ملايين سنة تقريبا، وعثر على حفريات خاصة بها في الغابات بين فنزويلا (...)
Egypt has warned against a new viral trend among teens, dubbed Skullbreaker Challenge, which involves danger to students, a circular by the education ministry read.
According to the note, the ministry called upon all schools, educational (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump issued on Friday an expanded version of a travel ban targeting prospective immigrants from Nigeria and five other countries
The move is expected to affect thousands of people and reignite debate on whether the policy is (...)
Lebanese consumers feeling the pinch from rising living costs amid an economic crisis are likely to be squeezed even tighter as more local pounds and less U.S. dollars come into circulation, pushing up inflation.
Lebanon has long relied on a steady (...)
The United States intends to send an ambassador to Bolivia to help restore a "normal relationship" between the two countries, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale said in a video statement posted online on Thursday.
The move, (...)
The United Nations said Monday that Lebanon has paid its U.N. dues, restoring its voting rights in the General Assembly.
The U.N. had announced Friday that seven countries _ including Venezuela and Lebanon _ were so far behind in paying their dues (...)
More emerging countries will be hit by debt woes in 2020, curbing the returns for the JPMorgan index of dollar-denominated sovereign bonds, the bank's head of emerging markets research said on Monday.
Venezuela, Argentina and Lebanon have been among (...)
Business heavyweight Mohamed El-Erian would buy Saudi Aramco shares without a doubt if they listed internationally, he told CNBC's Dan Murphy just days before the state oil giant's historic IPO.
Asked during a panel event at Abu Dhabi's SALT (...)
Oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Thursday to cut output by an extra 500,000 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2020 but stopped short of pledging action beyond March.
The countries involved pump over 40% of the world's oil, (...)
Lebanese journalists are facing threats and wide-ranging harassment in their work _ including verbal insults and physical attacks, even death threats _ while reporting on nearly 50 days of anti-government protests, despite Lebanon's reputation as a (...)
Many British citizens from the north of country to the south are wondering where their country is heading. The ripple effects of the vote to leave the European Union, the so-called Brexit, still have not run their course, clouding the atmosphere (...)
