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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 total borrowing of 2.37 billion riyals is 56 percent of the 4.2 billion rials worth of financing require...

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 country to advance negotiations among each other so that a united front is formed, and a joint delegat...

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 - 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. Speaking during the party's central committee meeting, Baraka was optimistic about the new laws in enhanci...

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