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Turkey’s central bank cut its main interest rate on Thursday after months of pressure from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for it to lower rates.

Massive plundering of South Sudan’s public coffers is undermining human rights in the world’s youngest nation and threatening its already fragile peace process, a UN report said Thursday.

Talks between Middle East regional rivals Tehran and Riyadh have led to “serious progress” on the issue of Gulf security, an Iranian foreign ministry official said.

Six-wheeled automated vehicles, launched three years ago, barely get a second glance as they ply the residential streets, some 80 kilometres (49 miles) north of London.

State electricity company says danger of nationwide blackout by end September

The international community faces a growing dilemma over whether to recognise the Taliban as the rulers of Afghanistan, weighing distaste on the vision of the Islamist group with the need … Read More

Central Bank’s plan to totally lift the subsidies on gasoline may encourage the new Lebanese Cabinet to proceed successfully in talks with the International Monetary Fund.

The Lebanese pound was trading at 16,400 to the dollar on the black market Thursday

In the decade since Tunisia’s toppling of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali sparked the Arab Spring, the North African country has had almost as many governments.

The phones at Lebanon’s only suicide hotline hardly ever stop ringing as people grow more and more desperate in the face of a financial downturn that has spurred a mental … Read More