Economics and Policy
MP Mohammed Qabbani, the head of Lebanon's parliamentary committee on energy, has accused caretaker energy minister Gebran Bassil over the stoppage of the Fatmagül electricity barge.
Kuwaiti politicians and media fumed Wednesday over $2.2 billion paid to U.S. giant Dow Chemical as a penalty for the Gulf emirate scrapping a joint venture, and called for those responsible to be held to account.
Majid Al Futtaim Properties LLC, owner of the Dubai mall with an indoor ski slope, plans to build a hotel in Beirut and another in Dubai to tap demand from visitors to its shopping centers.
