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By – Mohamed Nabil French President Emmanuel Macron announced yesterday that he abandoned the proposed fuel-tax hike amid fears of more unrest after weeks of nationwide protests that costed several lives and millions of euros in damage, according to france 24. While some of “Yellow Jackets” Protesters celebrated the move …

By – Mohamed Kamal Mohamed Salah has been named the Football Supporters’ Federation’s (FSF) Men’s Player of the Year for 2018. The Liverpool forward was announced as the winner of a fans’ poll that attracted more than 366,000 votes during a ceremony in London yesterday.

Dubai – Masaader News Q3 witnessed  a total of three IPOs in the GCC across a wide range of sectors, and unlike the first two quarters of the year which saw IPO activity confined within Saudi Arabia, this quarter saw those new offerings from the GCC – Kuwait and Oman, …

Dubai – Masaader News technology to reduce the tax compliance burdens on taxpayers, according to the 2019 edition of the annual Paying Taxes report, produced by PwC and The World Bank Group.   The report found that the global average results for the compliance burden for business taxation are almost …

By – Mohamed Nabil Oil prices on Monday clawed back some losses from a nearly 8 percent plunge the previous session, with Brent jumping back above $60 per barrel, but sentiment remained weak amid a broad sell-off in financial markets in past weeks, according to Reuters. Front-month Brent crude oil …

By – Mohamed Nabil Police in Paris have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters, in a second weekend of demonstrations sparked by rising fuel prices, according to BBC. Violence erupted on the Champs-Elysées as protesters tried to get through a security cordon around sensitive sites. About 5,000 …

BY – Mohamed Nabil EU leaders have approved an agreement on the UK’s withdrawal and future relations – insisting it is the “best and only deal possible”, according to BBC. After 20 months of negotiations, the 27 leaders gave the deal their blessing after less than an hour’s discussion. They …

By – Mohamed Nabil The Tunisian cabinet has approved on Friday the law of gender equality in inheritance, to be discussed in the parliament before being effective in the country, according to Al-Arabiya. The Tunisian president, Beji Caid Essebsi, had suggested the law in August 2017, on the occasion of the …

Dubai   – Masaader News US President Donald Trump has said the CIA did not conclude that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to BBC. Khashoggi was killed on 2 October in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. US officials have reportedly said that …

By – Mohamed Nabil The UK-Met Office has warned of a new kind of weather disaster. Britain risks being crippled by huge electrical disturbances caused by storms in space unless a satellite network is built that can detect them coming, according to The Times. The national weather service has told …