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Financial transfers from Lebanese expatriates constitute about 27.5% of the country’s gross domestic product, according to World Bank estimates. This figure puts Lebanon on top of the region’s list (and fourth globally) in terms of the percentage of expatriate contributions to the domestic product. ...

Morocco’s National Railway Office (ONCF) affirmed its commitment to continuing its plan towards clean energy transformation, which began two years ago amid the Kingdom’s growing interest in deploying renewables. The new phase aims at operating 90% of electric trains using clean energy, with a plan t...

After nearly two months of its spread, leading to China banning Iraqi meat imports, the Veterinary Department of the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture has announced the eradication of the “bluetongue” virus that infects livestock. Muhammad al-Khuzaie, a spokesman for the Iraqi agriculture minister, conf...

The presence of a fishing boat in the sea off the coast of Naqoura near the Lebanese-Israeli border has become a rare sight due to the mutual shelling between Israel and Hezbollah since last October, forcing fishermen to abandon their work for fear of their safety. Ahmed Awadah, a fisherman who stop...

Owners of furniture workshops in the Industrial Zone in Idlib, northwestern Syria, complain of low demand for their products due to an “invasion of used Turkish goods.” They said that the high prices of local products and Syrians’ weak purchasing power have pushed customers to buy used Turkish furni...

A Syrian resident of the Libyan capital of Tripoli says that he now needs to earn no less than 10 Libyan dinars a day just to be able to afford his daily needs of bread following its recurrent price hikes over the past few months. Mustafa Ibrahim said, “You have to earn 10 dinars a day to buy bread,...