July 14, 2020
The Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein yesterday called on his German counterpart Heiko Maas to support Baghdad’s removal from the European list of high-risk countries for money laundering and terrorism financing.
In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign ministry said Hussein received a telephone call from his German counterpart, during which they discussed bilateral and regional affairs.
According"...
July 14, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Middle East’s energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year as the region’s economic heavyweight, Saudi Arabia, sinks deeper into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund’s outlook released Monday.
The international lender expects an overall economic contraction of 7.3% in Mideast oil exporting countries this year due to hits from the coronavirus outbreak and"...
July 14, 2020
Iraqi security forces yesterday prevented hundreds of protesters from entering the Green Zone in Baghdad to demonstrate against deductions in their salaries, Anadolu reported.
Most of the protesters are members of the Islamic Dawa Party, led by former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki.
A police official, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Anadolu that the security services"...
July 14, 2020
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Commercial passenger flights from Kurdistan Region airports are to remain suspended until July 22, the head of Erbil International Airport (EIA) has announced.
The ban will include all international and domestic flights, except for military, medical aid, and cargo flights, EIA director Talal Fayaq told a press conference on Monday.
“It is expected that flights might resume after July 22, but until this date the airports remain closed,” Fayaq said, pending"...
July 13, 2020
RIYADH — According to The State of Cloud Security 2020, a global survey from next-generation cybersecurity leader Sophos, almost three quarters (71%) of organizations from the MEA region experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year — including ransomware (23%), other malware (43% ), exposed data (28% ), compromised accounts (28%), and cryptojacking (22%). Globally, organizations running multi-cloud environments are greater than 50% more likely to suffer a cloud security incident than those running"...
