Economics and Policy Gold prices recovered on Wednesday from a near one per cent fall in the previous session as investors’ hopes of the US bond-buying program staying intact. More from Reuters Lebanese mobile phone shop owners have held a protest outside a branch of Alfa in the northern city of Tripoli, demanding that the Telecommunications Ministry suspend its crackdown on cellular phone smuggling that went into effect on June 1. More from The Daily Star Abu Dhabi has completed a $11 billion project to process and bring to land offshore gas to meet burgeoning domestic demand. More from The National The Turkish power-generating ship Fatmagül Sultan, moored off the coast of Lebanon, has become operational again after a delay, a statement said. More from The Daily Star Companies and Business Michael Wright, the CEO of Lebanon-based retail chain Spinneys, is due to appear in court