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Monday, 5 April, 2021 - 10:30 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, US. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas Dubai – Asharq Al-Awsat Oman has borrowed 600 million rials ($1.56 billion) from its sovereign fund, the Oman Investment Authority, and another 1.77 billion rials through external and internal borrowings to partly finance its 2021 budget, the finance ministry said. The tota...

Monday, 5 April, 2021 - 10:15 A street market in Qamishli, Syria, Asharq Al-Awsat Qamishli - Kamal Sheikho Dialogue between Kurdish parties in Syria has returned to square one after US-backed talks failing to achieve any form of political consensus among the rivals of the largest ethnic minority in the war-torn country. The US deputy Special Envoy to Syria, for his part, has called on rival Kurdish parties in the Levantine co...

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Monday, 5 April, 2021 - 10:00 Istiqlal party sec-gen Nizar Baraka (File photo: AFP) Rabat - Asharq Al-Awsat Morocco’s opposition Istiqlal party hopes the new electoral laws approved by the parliament will open the door to a “new democratic rotation.” Istiqlal’s Sec-Gen Nizar Baraka called for establishing a new social contract based on an approach that includes all factions in the country and without discrimination. Speaki...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Monday, 5 April, 2021 - 09:30 Cairo - Asharq Al-Awsat The Egyptian government will implement several measures to accelerate COVID-19 inoculations after it received more than 854,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine last week. Only 148,987 citizens, including medical staff, healthcare workers and vulnerable groups, have been vaccinated so far, said Health Minister Hala Zayed during a meeting with ministry officials on the inoculati...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Monday, 5 April, 2021 - 05:15 A handout satellite image shows a view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Ethiopia on July 20, 2020. (AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat The latest meeting between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam may be the last chance to re-launch talks before it is filled for the second year in a row, Egypt said in a statement on Sunday. The meeting concludes on Monday in Kinshasa...

Sunday, 4 April, 2021 - 09:00 Head of the Algerian Workers Party Louisa Hanoune in Tipaza, Algeria. (AFP file photo) Algiers - Boualem Goumrassa The opposition Algerian Workers Party accused former party members of “plotting a coup” against secretary-general Louisa Hanoune, saying they were backed by state authorities. Former lawmakers and members of the partys central committee, who were expelled by Hanoune for disciplinary r...

Sunday, 4 April, 2021 - 06:45 A vehicle blocks a road during a protest against the fall in Lebanese pound currency and mounting economic hardships in Khaldeh, Lebanon March 8, 2021. (Reuters) Asharq Al-Awsat Lebanon must be willing to implement some real changes in order to get international funding assistance, according to the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa vice president. “Lebanon needs to help itself, so that we ...