Economics Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has pledged to push forward salary increases for civil servants and teachers within a three-week deadline as private school teachers agreed to resume classes in the meantime. More from The Daily Star Egypt expects to seal a long-delayed $4.8 billion loan deal before parliamentary elections start next month, the finance minister said on Sunday, as the country runs dangerously low on foreign currency reserves and the budget deficit soars. More from Reuters Elsewhere in Egypt, John Kerry, the US secretary of state, pledged $250 million to support Egypt’s “future as a democracy”. More from The National The finance minister of the Palestinian Authority has resigned amid deepening economic malaise in the West Bank. More from The National Inflation in Saudi Arabia is running at acceptable levels, the country’s central bank chief said on Sunday, playing down concerns that the economy could
