sarah.glubb    RIYADH: The International Monetary and Financial Committee on Friday held its biannual meeting in Washington DC to discuss the global macroeconomic and financial impact of current conflicts. The IMFC members focused on the war in Ukraine, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and shipping disruptions...

rbksa    LUCKNOW: KL Rahul’s solid runs off balls helped Lucknow Super Giants comfortably beat Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in the IPL on Friday.Rahul’s time at the crease, which saw him smash nine fours and three sixes, played a key role in pushing Lucknow past Chennai’s with six balls...

tamara.turki    DUBAI: The president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, received telephone calls from King Abdullah of Jordan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday, during which they expressed concern about the effects of the severe weather, including unusually heavy rainfall, that...

daniel.fountain    LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced on Friday it had agreed a multi year deal to sponsor the Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament. The deal is the latest in PIF’s wider tennis partnership with the Association of Tennis Professionals as a Platinum Partner and as the official...

romulo    RIYADH: Around the world, electric vehicles are already revolutionizing leisure, public transportation and logistics, shrinking the carbon footprint of travel, improving air quality and reducing pollution in the air, on land and in the sea. As Saudi Arabia embarks on a range of environmental...

malawi    Author: Alan S. Blinder

malawi    LONDON: A group of financial companies on Friday urged governments to agree a treaty to end plastic pollution that would help spur private sector action, ahead of the next round of global talks in Canada. The fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution ...

Mahad    JEDDAH: A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga security forces was killed on Friday in a Turkish drone strike in the autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

malawi    HELSINKI: The EU should take measures to help Finland stop an influx of migrants via Russia, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said.

malawi    WASHINGTON: Economies in the Middle East and North Africa face a shadow of uncertainty from ongoing tensions in the region, a senior IMF official said. We are in a context where the overall outlook is cast into shadows, Jihad Azour, the International Monetary Fund’s director for the Middle...