JERUSALEM: Israel has decided to confiscate the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank to build illegal settlement units on its site, according to medi…
ISTANBUL: Retail sales in Brazil jumped 5.1% annually in August, according to data released Thursday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The figure was much higher than expectations of a 3.6% gain.
The annual figure for Ju…
ISTANBUL: Latin America and the Caribbean region is expected to expand 1.9% in 2924, according to a report by the World Bank.
The region is forecast to show an economic growth of 2.6% next year, it said Wednesday.
While the estimated figures are the…