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Lebanon Approves Cyprus Maritime Border, Syria Next
...11, but Syria – not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – rejected this in 2014. Since the end of its civil war in 1990, Lebanon has oscillated between Iran-Syria and western influence. But with Hezbollah out of government in Lebanon and Syria now moving to...
Volume: 68Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2025 -
Oman Sees Economic Weaknesses Play A Geopolitical Role
...l revenues. But it never fully recovered from 2014’s oil price crash. Coupled with a post-Arab Spring spending spree, this saw its debt balloon from $4bn in 2013 to $50bn just seven years later. This year’s collapse in oil prices added insult to injury. Revenues fell from $14.3bn in 1H 2019 to $12...
Volume: 63Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020 -
Qatar’s Export Revenues Hit A Four-Year High Despite Ongoing Embargo
...19. These increases contributed to Qatar achieving its first quarterly budget surplus since 4Q 2015 in 1Q 2018, albeit a modest $260mn (MEES, 3 August). Latest figures show it backed this up with a $1.67bn Q2 surplus, putting the emirate on track to secure its first annual budget surplus since 2014’s $25...
Volume: 61Issue: 44Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018 -
Kuwaiti Government Resigns As Political Dysfunction Grows
...16 1Q17 2Q16 2016 vs 15 2015 2014 2013 Ex...
Volume: 60Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2017 -
Egypt Devalues Currency In Bid To Calm Forex Market
...reign grants have fallen sharply to E£3.5bn in 2015-16, from E£25bn in 2014-15 and E£95bn in 2013-14. Spending on energy subsidies is not going according to plan as projected in the 2016-17 budget at E£35bn. In the first quarter alone of the current year the energy subsidy rose to E£14bn, which on an...
Volume: 59Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016 -
Iraq Faces Up To Export Undershoot
...IRAQ Iraq Faces Up To Export Undershoot Iraq’s cabinet is struggling to finalize a 2014 budget, a task complicated by an ever widening gap between revenue and expenditure. Spending has overshot draft estimates because of the current crisis, while oil exports and revenues have fa...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Civil War And Partition Threaten Iraq
...nd a modus vivendi. The current instability coincides with plans to raise the export capacity of Iraq’s southern oil ports to 4mn b/d by the end of the first quarter of 2014. Crude oil storage capacity throughout the country has been increased to over 7mn barrels. According to Deputy Prime Mi...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Border Impasse
...nister of Energy Gebran Bassils early October announcement that the ministry had extended the deadline for IOCs to submit their bids. Originally set for September, the deadline has gradually been pushed back to 10 January 2014. In all likelihood, this is a moving target. Caretaker Prime Minister Na...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013