RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Tabuk Pharmaceutical has signed a contract with Moderna to sell and distribute its COVID-19 vaccine in the Kingdom. The Riyadh-based company, a unit of Tadawul-listed Astra Industrial Group (AIG), has signed an exclusive service agreement with Moderna Switzerland, it said in a stock exchange filing on Sunday. Tabuk said the value of the deal was
CAIRO: Iraq’s oil minister said on Saturday that he expects oil prices to range between $68 and $75 per barrel during the second half of this year if OPEC abides by set production output to protect markets. Ihsan Abdul Jabbar also told journalists “there are new projects in which there is a common interest” between Exxon Mobil and Iraq. “We expect that Exxon Mobil will remain
Americans Michael Taylor and his son Peter Taylor go on trial in Tokyo on Monday on charges they helped Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, skip bail and flee to Lebanon in December 2019. HOW DID THE TAYLORS END UP IN JAPAN? The Taylors were arrested in Massachusetts in May 2020 and extradited to Japan in March. They have not been released on bail and are not available for
LONDON, Canada: Several hundred people gathered in London, Ontario on Saturday to pay homage to a Muslim family deliberately mowed down by the driver of a pick-up truck, in an attack that has shocked Canadians and which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced as “terrorist.” Four members of the Afzaal family a man and his wife, their teenage daughter and his mother were
DUBAI: The Middle East’s regional GDP will grow by 2.4 percent this year according to a report commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICEAW). It represents a similar rate to the region’s average growth trajectory in the last decade, as countries double down on their pandemic exit strategies. The report reveals that business confidence in