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Economy

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Minister of Energy Khalid al-Falih speaks during financial sector conference in Riyadh, April 24. (Reuters)

Saudi energy minister: 'Will be responsive to our customers'

Iran

The price of Brent crude oil over the past 6 months. (AFP)

Oil prices at 2019 highs after Iran announcement

Morocco

Shaping the future. Young Moroccans walk past solar mirrors at the Noor 1 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, some 20km outside the central Moroccan town of Ouarzazate. (AFP)

Morocco sees vocational training as way to boost employment, growth

Tunisian

Financial imbalances. A shopkeeper counts money in his shop at a bazaar in Tunis. (Reuters)

Tunisia struggles with scourge of tax evasion

Saudi Arabia

Stronger operations. A part of Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

Saudi Aramco looks to South Korea for downstream investment

Syria

At a standstill. Taxi drivers push their cars that ran out of fuel to a petrol station in Damascus, April 16. (AFP)

Damascus struggles with chronic petrol shortages

Turkey

Wake-up call. A man reacts as the vendor gives the price for vegetables at market in Ankara, last February. (AFP)

Turkey's economy expected to contract in 2019, face longer recession

Mishel Ben-Baruch

This file photo from December 2015 shows Israel's David Sling's missile defence system, a medium-range interceptor, developed with United States backing, at an unknown location in Israel.

Israeli defence sales topped $7.5 bn in 2018

Palestinian Authority

A shopkeeper waits for customers in the Old City in Jerusalem, last year. (AP)

World Bank: Palestinian economy in ‘crisis’ over Israel tax row