OPEC+ oil alliance announces surprise production cuts from May
Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers have announced voluntary cuts to their production amounting to about 1.15 million barrels per day (bpd), calling it a “precautionary measure” aimed at market stability. The 23-nation group had been largely expected to stick to its already agreed 2 million…#saudiarabia #russian #vladimirputin #riyadh #iraq #unitedarabemirates #kuwait #oman #algeria #kazakhstan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

UAE approves 24 initiatives as it aims doubling country ’s re-export by 2030
RIYADH: The UAE government has approved 24 national initiatives that will increase the country’s re-export sector by 100 percent over the next seven years. The creation of a national re-export committee is one of the proposals, which primarily supports raising re-export rates. In collaboration…#dubai #uae #saudiarabia #iraq #oman #kuwait #hongkong #belgium #saifbinzayedalnahyan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

XRP Scam Alert: India's Major News Channel Hacked to Promote Fake Airdrop Featuring Ripple CEO
India's News24 Twitter account has become yet another victim of crypto hackers, who managed to gain access to it and began posting phishing links on its behalf mentioning the fake XRP airdrop. As is standard, these posts pretend to be an official Ripple event and even feature the crypto company's…#twitter #xrp #bradgarlinghouse #madhyapradesh #oman #ripple (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Third Scientific Conference and sixth EMARIS meeting on acute respiratory infections in the ...
18 March 2023 – Focusing on better preparedness, early detection, rapid response, and enhanced research for respiratory diseases, the Third Scientific Conference and the sixth EMARIS meeting on acute respiratory infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region concluded in Muscat, Oman.  Serving as a platform to showcase partnership and solidarity, the 3-day meeting and conference convened more than 200 health experts from WHO, Member States, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and partner organizations.  Besides extensive deliberations, the recommendations of the meeting and conference focused o...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 19, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news

‘It’s inexcusable.’ WHO blasts China for not disclosing potential data on COVID-19’s origin
Maria Van Kerkhove has had a crazy, busy week. The infectious disease epidemiologist who oversees the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) program on emerging diseases and zoonoses began Sunday morning with a start: A researcher contacted her and said colleagues had uncovered crucial new data from China that speak to the origin of the pandemic. The researcher told Van Kerkhove—who was preparing to leave her home in Geneva for a flight to Oman—that a team led by George Gao, former head of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, had sat on potentially important genetic sequences from samples it coll...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

China, Iran and Russia are to conduct military drills in the gulf of Oman from March 15th -19th
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health experts discuss acute respiratory infections and epidemic and pandemic preparedness in ...
13 March 2023, Muscat – The third Scientific Conference on Acute Respiratory Infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and Sixth meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Acute Respiratory Infection Surveillance (EMARIS) network, organized by WHO together with partner organizations, and hosted by the Ministry of Health in Oman, is taking place this week in Muscat, from 13 to 15 March.  The theme of this year's conference, "Better preparedness, early detection and rapid response for respiratory diseases,” reflects the recommendations from the previous EMARIS meeting and scientific conference for Member States...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 13, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news

Analysis
The image is calculated to impress. At a media event in Beijing, China’s top diplomat mugs for the cameras, as the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and Saudi Arabia’s national security adviser shake hands. With Chinese encouragement, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Middle East’s…#beijing #iran #saudiarabias #saudiarabia #middleeasts #johnkirby #iranians #saudis #iraq #oman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Oman ’s OQ Gets $2 Billion in Orders for $244 Million Abraj IPO
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Oman Energy Ministry to offer new oil and gas concessions, to be announced in the end of Q1 2023
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Oman Energy Ministry to offer offshore oil and gas concessions in Q2 2023
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Oman ’s Abraj Energy forms strategic partnership to explore oil in Kuwait
RIYADH: Oman’s oil and gas drilling services firm Abraj Energy is set to explore oil in Kuwait as the company signed a new strategic partnership agreement with Kuwaiti national oil company Kuwait Gulf Oil Co. and Saudi Arabian-based chemical plant Saudi Chevron Co., according to a statement. Under…#abrajenergy #kuwait #kuwaiti #kuwaitgulfoilco #saudiarabian #saudichevronco #abrajenergys #middleeast #northafrica #muscatstockexchange (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dictators Bent On Building Military Empires: The Cost Of The Nation's Endless Wars
Dictators Bent On Building Military Empires: The Cost Of The Nation's Endless Wars Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A…#johnnishawhitehead #rutherfordinstitute #ukraine #war #somalia #iraq #syria #saudiarabia #jordan #oman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Gender Central to Parliamentarians ’ Programme of Action
Cooperative members in southern Lebanon make a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut. Women are central to meeting the SDGs, say parliamentarians. Credit: UN Women/Joe SaadeBy IPS CorrespondentJOHANNESBURG, Feb 23 2023 (IPS) The post-COVID-19 period has been a crucial one for members of parliament who have their work cut out to ensure that issues that arose during the pandemic are addressed, especially concerning the ICPD25 commitments and programmes of action for universal access to sexual and reproductive rights, gender-based violence and building peaceful, just and inclusiv...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: IPS Correspondent Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Development & Aid Gender Gender Identity Gender Violence Middle East & North Africa TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy Women's Health Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) IPS UN Bureau IPS Source Type: news

Oman to establish regulatory framework for virtual assets
the regulator of Oman’s financial markets, looks to establish a new regulatory framework for the virtual asset industry in the Sultanate. According to a Feb. 14 press release, the new rules would include oversight of virtual asset activities, a licensing process for virtual asset service providers…#omans #sultanate #omani #cma #omansvision2040 #oman #middleeast #centralbankofoman #cbo #omanis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news