Gulf states plan to roll out VAT in 3 years
Gulf states have agreed on key issues for implementing value-added tax in the region, an official from the United Arab Emirates finance ministry said...
Japan is boosted as the Dollar strengthens and crude climbs almost one percent in...
Japanese stocks rallied as the dollar strengthened in holiday-thinned trade Monday, with most markets across Asia closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
A report...
Female suicide bomber wounds 8 in Turkish city of Bursa
A female suicide bomber wounded eight people when she blew herself up near the main mosque in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa on...
ISIS claim suicide attack at Egypt police club that kills 3
A suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives at the main gate of a police club in the restive northern part of the...
Foreign Policy lists Deputy Crown Prince among 2015’s top influencers
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, has been listed by US magazine Foreign Policy as being one...
Release of jailed Turkish journalists is 'defeat' for Erdogan
The release of two prominent Turkish journalists following a ruling by Turkey's top court that their rights had been violated is a "clear defeat"...
Israel seeks 'solution' over Egypt gas row
Israel announced Tuesday that it was sending an envoy to Cairo to find a solution after Egyptian firms were ordered to pay $1.76 billion...
Yemen ceasefire takes effect as U.N. talks open
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen said on Tuesday that a ceasefire had begun at noon (0900 GMT) as scheduled.
Coalition spokesman...
U.N. says Syria aid, medicine and prisoner releases still blocked
Aid convoys were on their way to four Syrian towns on Thursday but the government was still refusing aid to six besieged towns and...
Footballer Lionel Messi to be tried on tax fraud charges
Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi and his father Jorge are to stand trial on three counts of tax fraud that could carry prison...
