My Blog My WordPress Blog

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The deputy governor of Saudi Arabia’s investment authority says the country faces challenges attracting foreign investment outside its oil and gas sectors, but that several initiatives in place are helping to change investors’ perceptions. Prince Saud al-Faisal told The Associated Press in an interview Monday …

PARIS – The last of the 12 victims slain in the terror attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo was a police officer — the son of immigrants from mainly Muslim North Africa — who was shot dead on the sidewalk by one of the assailants as they started their …

CAIRO – Britain launched its largest trade mission to Egypt in over a decade on Tuesday, involving more than 40 companies from the top foreign investor in the Arab world’s most populous country. The meeting in a palace-turned-hotel focused on developing the energy, real estate and construction sectors, as well …