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Day: June 23, 2022

FIFA increases squad limit to 26 for World Cup

Zurich, June 23 (BNA): Teams will be able to select up to 26 players for this year’s World Cup after global soccer’s governing body FIFA increased the maximum squad limit by three on Thursday.FIFA said the change was due to the unusual timing of the to…

Asia shares struggle, oil falls as recession fears linger

Beijing/Hong Kong, June 23 (BNA): Asian shares wobbled while commodity prices fell on Thursday as mounting worries about the risks of a global recession amid aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve kept broad investor sentiment fragile. MSCI’s bro…

U.S. recession fears darken outlook for Japan, global factories

Tokyo, June 23 (BNA): Japan’s factory activity growth slowed to a four-month low in June as China’s COVID-19 curbs disrupted supply chains, while many other economies in Asia were also facing headwinds amid growing risks to the outlook from a potential…

Lebanon signs an agreement with Egypt to import gas through Syria

Baghdad / NINA / – Lebanon and Egypt signed, today, Tuesday, an agreement to transport 650 million cubic meters of gas annually from Egypt to Lebanon via Syria.Under the agreement, which was signed at a ceremony held at the Lebanese Ministry of Energy …

Dollar price stable at Egypt’s major banks

The US dollar exchange rate was stable at the beginning of Thursday’s transactions at Egypt’s major banks. At the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Banque Misr, the dollar rate registered EGP 18.71 for buying and EGP 18.77 for selling. At the Commercial…

Egypt is investment magnet in different domains

Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait asserted that Egypt has become an attractive destination for investments in numerous domains.Maait said that unprecedented major national and development projects that are being implemented nationwide provide promising…

NNA – Strong Lebanon Parliamentary bloc leader, MP Gebran Bassil, on Thursday said that the Free Parliamentary bloc hadn’t named anybody for the Prime Minister-designate post in the binding consultations at Baabda Palace. Source: National News Agency-Lebanon

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, HE Akbar al-Baker, received the ‘2022 Joseph Murphy Award’ by Air Transport World (ATW), an online and print trade publication covering the aviation industry.He received the award at the ATW’s 48th Annual Airline In…

Egyptian athletes flew to Mediterranean Games in Algeria

EgyptAir on Thursday transported Egyptian athletes participating in the 2022 Mediterranean Games in the Algerian city of Oran.The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner directly carried 300 passengers heading for Oran, the national flag carrier said in a statement.It…

UN to Hold New Libya Talks as Stalemate Persists

TRIPOLI — The United Nations said Thursday it will broker new talks between rival institutions from war-torn Libya next week to try to break a deadlock on the rules for long-awaited elections.”[Parliament speaker] Aguila Saleh and President of the High…

HH the Amir Issues Decree to Adjourn Shura Council Session

HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani issued yesterday Decree No. 31 of 2022 to adjourn the first ordinary session of the first legislative term, corresponding to the Shura Council’s 50th annual session, as of Tuesday, Dhu’l-Hijjah 6, 1443 AH, co…

MCIT and IPA Qatar Sign MoU with Amazon Web Services

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (IPA Qatar) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Amazon Web Services, the global leader in cloud computing, on the sidelines of the Qa…

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