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Second Etihad plane from UAE lands in Israel
AFP, Published on 10/06/2020
» JERUSALEM: UAE carrier Etihad Airways sent its second flight to Israel in less than a month Tuesday, carrying medical aid to help the Palestinians tackle the coronavirus pandemic, witnesses and officials said.
Covid-19, the knockout punch for multilateralism?
AFP, Published on 24/04/2020
» PARIS: The coronavirus pandemic blindsided international organisations, prompted individual states to unilaterally strike out alone and heralded a new chapter in the 21st century's chief geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China.
Crisis-hit oil market in frantic hunt for storage
AFP, Published on 23/04/2020
» LONDON: The oil market, rocked by crisis this week as prices plunged below zero on rampant oversupply and demand-destroying coronavirus, faces the critical problem of where to store surplus crude.
Oil and gas giants spend €250m on EU lobbying: Green groups
AFP, Published on 24/10/2019
» PARIS: The five biggest publicly listed oil and gas companies and trade groups representing them spent more than 250 million euros lobbying the European Union to influence climate action since 2010, environmental groups said Thursday.
US-China trade talks 'productive' as hopes mount for mini-deal
AFP, Published on 12/10/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday said Chinese and American officials were working toward meaningful progress in trade talks, boosting hopes for a truce in the damaging tariff conflict.
US unemployment falls to 50-year low of 3.5% in September
AFP, Published on 04/10/2019
» WASHINGTON: America's jobless rate tumbled in September to its lowest level in 50 years, according to government data released Friday, delighting the White House even though it may not assuage recession fears as President Donald Trump's trade wars persist.
Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for first time
AFP, Published on 27/09/2019
» RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said Friday it will offer tourist visas for the first time, opening up the ultra-conservative kingdom to holidaymakers as part of a push to diversify its economy away from oil.
EU leaders round on Trump over trade at G7
AFP, Published on 25/08/2019
» BIARRITZ, France: EU leaders rounded on US President Donald Trump over his trade threats Saturday at a G7 summit in France overshadowed by trans-Atlantic tensions and worries about the global economy.
US-China trade war deteriorates
AFP, Published on 24/08/2019
» WASHINGTON: The United States and China exchanged blows Friday as each side increased punitive tariffs on the other, intensifying a trade war that is threatening to engulf the global economy.
China says trade war 'has not made America great again'
AFP, Published on 02/06/2019
» BEIJING: Washington's escalating trade war with Beijing has not "made America great again" and has instead damaged the American economy, China said Sunday, stressing that while it wants resolution through talks there will be no compromise on core principles.