At the time of writing (March 12) the number of known coronavirus infections had exceeded 126,000 and that the death toll was above 4,600 persons. Governments around the world have…
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Falafel Games is behind one of the most popular online games in Arabic, Knights of Glory, with around half a million members. On its website, the firm states its aim…
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That China is a rising global power is a given, although whether the People’s Republic will eventually usurp the United States as world hegemon is hotly debated. But as a…
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The largest external investor in Russia in 2011 was not the world’s biggest economy, the United States. Nor was it one of the emerging economic behemoths China or India, or…
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It is one of those economic oddities that Saudi Arabia, regularly the world’s top oil producer, does not set the price for the oil it sells. While potentially wielding great…
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United States currency policy concerns almost everyone: the Chinese, who hold some $876 billion in US treasury bills; the Middle East and North Africa, where nearly every nation’s currency…
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Saudi Arabia is concerned by the recent increase in oil prices as the market is no longer short on supply, the country’s oil minister said on Monday. Ali al-Naimi said…
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The spectacular rebound of emerging markets after the recent recession was driven in no small part by China’s emergency stimulus package in late 2008, arguably the timeliest and the largest…
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Behind the current short-term fluctuations linked to shifting growth prospects lies a powerful uptrend in commodity prices. A deep-seated change in lifestyles in emerging countries is creating new needs in…
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With Russia, we remember centuries of territorial disputes, with the British their past control of our oil, and with the Americans we remember them supporting the Shah,” says a…
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