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The IMFSaid Last Month That Growth in the Non-Oil Sector Was Expected to Accelerate as the Kingdom Moved Ahead With Economic Reforms. (Shutterstock)

September 18th, 2018 - 07:18 GMT

IMF Confident Saudi Can Meet 1.9 Percent GDP Forecast

Saudi Arabia’s economy can achieve an International Monetary Fund forecast of 1.9 percent gross domestic product growth this year, the central bank governor said on Sunday.

The Juelich Nuclear Research Facility (AFP/File)

April 14th, 2016 - 09:41 GMT

Paris attacks suspect possessed documents on German nuclear research center

Saudi Arabia is reportedly seeking a bank loan of between $6B-$8B, in what would be the first significant foreign borrowing by the kingdom's government for over a decade. (File photo)

April 13th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Low oil continues to bite as Saudi suffers Fitch downgrade

A Russian Mi-28 helicopter crashed in Homs province, killing two pilots. (File photo)

April 12th, 2016 - 08:17 GMT

Two Russian pilots killed in helicopter crash in Syria

The financing for the petroleum and petroleum products will have an interest rate of 2 percent and will be repaid over 15 years. (File photo)

April 12th, 2016 - 04:24 GMT

Saudi's $23B oil deal with Egypt is a policy change from handouts to loans

Iraqi soldiers hold a position on the roof of a building near the frontline on April 9, 2016 during military operations to recapture the northern Nineveh province from Daesh. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

April 10th, 2016 - 04:30 GMT

US: 24 coalition strikes against Daesh in Iraq, one in Syria

A member of the Libyan army stands on a tank as heavy black smoke rises from the city's port during clashes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on December 23, 2014. (AFP Photo/Abdullah Doma)

April 10th, 2016 - 03:45 GMT

Workers evacuated from Libyan oil fields over militant threat

Dozens of people wait for food at the makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

April 10th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Migrants, Macedonian police fight near Idomeni camp

The Russian ambassador claimed that archeological treasures were being smuggled through Turkey to be sold directly to buyers over the internet. (AFP/FIle)

April 7th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Trade in plundered antiquities nets Daesh $200M annually: Russia

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said Monday that Mahan Air was banned due to violations of local safety rules. (Wikimedia Commons)

April 6th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Iran downplays Saudi ban on Iranian airliners

Refugees from Syria arrive at the Friedland shelter near Goettingen, central Germany, on April 4, 2016, after arriving from Turkey at the airport in Hanover. (AFP/Swen Pfoertner)

April 5th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Germany: Nearly 300 attacks on asylum shelters so far this year

Members of the civil defence spray and clean areas in the town of Taza, around 220 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad, on Sunday. (AFP/File)

April 5th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Daesh launches chemical attack in Syrian military airport

Lebanese people wave flags of Hezbollah in a ceremony on August 14, 2015. (AFP/File)

April 5th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

UAE jails three for suspected links with Hezbollah