Recent Posts

Arab Children’s Parliament calls for unified Arab education

SHARJAH / WAM The Arab Children’s Parliament held its third session where members discussed the right of the Arab child to education, including: child participation in developing education, curricula and textbooks, improving the quality of education, children without schools, talents and children, and the role of education in empowering the child to participate in achieving the sustainable development goals. The ...

Read More »

US says it has thwarted $6b Russia-Germany gas pipeline project

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s top energy official said he’s confident that Russia won’t be able to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea — and signalled that the US will press forward with its opposition to the project. Asked about Russian efforts to circumvent US sanctions on the pipeline by completing it on its own, US ...

Read More »

Johnson’s Treasury coup could shift UK budget goalposts again

Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s regime change at the Treasury could herald yet more tweaks to the rules that keep Britain’s budgets in check. The shock resignation of Sajid Javid as chancellor of the exchequer last week robbed the new Conservative government of a fiscal hawk who moderated the big spending ambitions of the most powerful prime minister since Tony Blair. His ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend