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QIIB wins Sustainable Islamic Finance Leadership Award 2025
GCC Business News
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July 30, 2025
QIIB has been awarded the 2025 ‘Leadership Award for Sustainable Islamic Finance’ in Qatar by the Union of Arab Banks, recognizing the bank’s leading role in promoting sustainability and advancing environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...
Daines calls for ending Jackson-Vanik restrictions; discusses security ties with Kazakhstan and Lebanon
Southeast Montana News
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July 29, 2025
U.S. Senator Steve Daines questioned nominees Julie Stufft and Michel Issa for ambassador positions to Kazakhstan and Lebanon during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Daines highlighted the importance of U.S.-Kazakhstan relations,...
Baker Tilly rapidly rebuilds UAE business with firm from rival network
Consultancy-me.com
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July 30, 2025
Following the recent departure of its member firm, Baker Tilly has rapidly rebuilt its business in the UAE with the arrival of the former Crowe member firm. In June, JFC Group – one of the larger member firms in Baker Tilly’s network in the Middle...
International companies eye Syria’s cement sector
International Cement Review
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July 30, 2025
More than 15 international companies, including several from Arab countries, have submitted offers to invest in the Syrian cement industry, according to director of the state-owned General Company for Manufacturing and Marketing Cement and...
'Corruption and negligence': New book uncovers past Beirut port explosions
The National News
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With the fifth anniversary of Beirut’s 2020 port explosion on Monday, one might expect to see memorials and other acts of remembrance across the city, but many in Lebanon are simply trying to move on. Between the continuing economic crisis,...
Stephen Timms MP explores East India Company Trail at St Paul’s
EasternEye
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July 30, 2025
He was known as a distinguished economist who had taught at the London School of Economics, where he remained an emeritus professor after his retirement, but his knowledge of Bollywood films was also impressive. He admitted whistling songs from...
HSBC Targeted in Swiss Probe Linked to Ex-Lebanon Central Banker
Mint
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July 30, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank is the focus of a Swiss investigation into suspected money-laundering connected to the alleged embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars by the former head of Lebanon’s central bank....
US pressures Lebanon to issue decision on Hezbollah disarmament
The New Arab
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July 30, 2025
Hezbollah has refused to hand over its arms before Israel withdraws from south Lebanon [Getty] Washington is ramping up pressure on Beirut to swiftly issue a formal cabinet decision committing to disarm Hezbollah before talks can resume on a halt...
Erdogan shouldn’t bank on Trump
Kathimerini
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July 30, 2025
Bedouin fighters gather in the village of Busra al-Harir, while security forces cordon off the area, in southern Syria, on Tuesday, July 22. Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘destabilizing’ involvement in Syria shows that the Israeli prime minister ‘has no...
QIIB gets ‘Leadership Award for Sustainable Islamic Finance’ in Qatar by Union of Arab Banks
Qatar Tribune
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July 30, 2025
Tribune News Network Doha QIIB has been awarded the 2025 “Leadership Award for Sustainable Islamic Finance” in Qatar by the Union of Arab Banks, in recognition of the bank’s pioneering role and ongoing contributions in this field. QIIB Chief of...
Coast-to-coast train route proposed by DE-based group may debut in 2026
The News Journal - Delaware
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AmeriStarRail proposes a privately funded transcontinental train route, the Transcontinental Chief, aiming to connect Los Angeles and New York City in under 72 hours. The company hopes to launch the service by May 10, 2026, pending agreements with...
QIIB wins 2025 ‘Leadership Award for Sustainable Islamic Finance’
The Peninsula
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July 30, 2025
Chief of Corporate Sector at QIIB Omar Abdulaziz Al Meer with other officials receiving the award during the ceremony.w Doha: QIIB has been awarded the 2025 “Leadership Award for Sustainable Islamic Finance” in Qatar by the Union of Arab Banks, in...
Salon du Chocolat Dubai 2025: A Leading Trade Event for Chocolate and Pastry Innovation
Food Business Gulf & Middle East
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July 30, 2025
Recognized as a key event in the region’s growing gourmet and hospitality landscape, Salon du Chocolat et de la Pâtisserie Dubai is set to return for its fourth edition from September 30 to October 2, 2025, at Madinat Jumeirah, Madinat Arena. As...
CommentCan Lebanon's new government finally achieve justice for Beirut blast victims?
The National News
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August 4 will mark the fifth anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever. The families of the victims are still awaiting justice. Earlier this year the magistrate...
NACCIMA Calls on Diplomatic Community to Support Nigeria’s Economic Transformation Plan
This Day
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July 30, 2025
Michael Olugbode in Abuja Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has called for the support of the diplomatic community in Nigeria’s bid for economic transformation. National President of NACCIMA,...
Finance and budget committee approves banking reform law
Naharnet
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by Naharnet Newsdesk 28 July 2025, 16:01 The finance and budget committee approved Monday the banking reform law, MP Ibrahim Kanaan, head of the committee, said after a 6-hour meeting. Kanaan assured Lebanese depositors that their money will not...
Lebanon bids farewell to Ziad Rahbani, a visionary artist and popular hero
Naharnet
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The coffin of Ziad Rahbani -- a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur -- arrived at noon Monday at a Bikfaya church for the funeral service, after hundreds of fans bid him farewell outside the Khoury Hospital...
What Turkey’s $2.9 Trillion Economy Means for Middle East Power Dynamics
24/7 Wall St.
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July 29, 2025
Military DVIDSHUB / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr Key Points Out of all the Middle Eastern nations, perhaps the strongest economy in the region is that Turkey in its Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Turkey can buy more military materiel than any other nation in...
Lebanese composer and son of iconic singer Fayrouz, dies at 69
Tribune Chronicle - Ohio
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BEIRUT — Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency. The death was confirmed by a person close to Rahbani who...
A genius mourned: Lebanon gathers for Ziad Rahbani's memorial
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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Report by Yazbek Wehbe, English adaptation by Yasmine Jaroudi Ziad Rahbani was more than a composer or playwright—he was a mirror of Lebanon's identity, a vital part of its theatrical and musical soul. On the second day of his memorial services,...