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Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco is listed and started trading on the Saudi Tadawul stock exchange on Wednesday for the first time after a mammoth $25.6 billion initial public offering that set the record as the biggest ever in history. The

Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, the world’s oldest prime minister, promised Tuesday to hand over power to anointed successor Anwar Ibrahim after November. Mahathir, 94, told Reuters in an interview that he would not hand over the office before a summit of Asia-Pacific

Algerian court has sentence three political figures in prison for corruption charges. Just days ahead of the presidential elections: Former PMs Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal sentenced to 15 & 12 years in jail, former Minister of Energy Youcef Yousfi to

Ignacio Briones, Minister of Finance of Chile, launched officially the Santiago Action Plan to accelerate the transition to climate finance to achieve low-carbon and climate-resilient growth. At the High-Level segment during the second week of COP25, the Minister of Finance of

Tullow Oil Plc’s chief executive officer and exploration director quit after the company cut its production outlook and suspended the dividend. The shares tumbled, deepening their loss for the year to more than 60%. CEO Paul McDade and exploration chief Angus

A head of the Nobel Literature Prize ceremony, condemnation grew Monday over the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke, who is widely known as a denier of the 1992-1995 Bosnian genocide, the worst mass

Finland’s Social Democrats elected Sunday a 34-year-old former transport minister to the post of the prime minister, making her the youngest head of government in the world’s history. Sanna Marin narrowly won Sunday’s vote to replace outgoing leader Antti Rinne, who

A nationwide strike brought much of France to a standstill on Thursday as tens of thousands hit the streets to protest a pension overhaul by President Emmanuel Macron, which unions say will force millions of people to work longer or face