Industry & Trade Saudi-Egypt power grid link to complete in Dec 2018: official Yomna Yasser May 25, 2017 0 Egypt is expected to complete a project aimed at linking its power grids with Saudi Arabia at the end of December…
MENA News Lebanon PM criticises Hezbollah media border tour nada nasser Apr 22, 2017 0 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri criticised the powerful Hezbollah movement on Friday for organising a media…
MENA News Lebanon near breaking point over Syrian refugee crisis: PM Hariri Yomna Yasser Apr 2, 2017 0 Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said Lebanon was close to breaking point due to the strains of hosting 1.5 million…
Banks Lebanon’s Blom Bank: 2016 profits rise 44.9% in Egypt Yomna Yasser Mar 26, 2017 0 Blom Bank Egypt, the Egyptian arm of Lebanon’s bank Blom, says profits have risen 44.9 percent to record 539…
Industry & Trade ASEC-Capital to sign Suez Canal giant industrial city deal at March-end Yomna Yasser Mar 20, 2017 0 The General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone’s (SCZone) and the ASEC-Capital alliance, which includes…
MENA News Lebanon charges 18 with transferring $19mn to ISIS Yomna Yasser Mar 19, 2017 0 A Lebanese military court on Friday charged 18 people, most of them Syrians, with transferring more than $19…
MENA News Syria’s jihadists say responsible for Damascus bomb attack Yomna Yasser Mar 13, 2017 0 A Syrian alliance of jihadist groups known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said on Sunday it was responsible for a double…
MENA News Palestinian killed in clashes near Lebanon’s capital Yomna Yasser Mar 12, 2017 0 Lebanon's state news agency says one Palestinian has been killed and others wounded during intense clashes that…
MENA News Lebanon appoints new army chief ending deadlock Yomna Yasser Mar 9, 2017 0 Lebanon's Cabinet Wednesday appointed a new army chief, General Joseph Aoun, ending a deadlock that twice forced an…
Banks Lebanon’s Bank Audi names Abbas Fayed new CEO in Egypt Yomna Yasser Mar 5, 2017 0 Bank Audi SAE, Egypt’s eighth largest commercial bank and the Egyptian arm of Lebanon’s Bank Audi, announced Sunday…