The Economist of the Middle East

The Egyptian authorities refused entry to an Indian shipment of wheat that the boat it was carrying had diverted from Turkey to Egypt. The head of the Egyptian Agricultural Quarantine, Ahmed Al-Attar, told Sky News Arabia: “We received a request from a company that owns 55 thousand tons of Indian wheat shipment and wants to enter Egyptian ports after it …

Data from the Omani Ministry of Finance showed that the budget surplus from the beginning of this year until April amounted to 468 million Omani riyals, compared to a deficit of 828 million Omani riyals during the same period last year. Public spending amounted to 3.749 billion riyals, an increase of 4.2% on an annual basis during the first four …

The Judicial Council in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced, on Saturday, that the central government in Baghdad does not have the right to cancel the oil and gas law in the region, which means that it will remain in effect, in a new chapter of the dispute between the two parties. The Federal Supreme Court in Iraq ruled last …