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The UAE energy chief calls for more storage and local refining following a disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.
Google News – UAE
Iranian officials Mohammad Reza Aref, Ahmad Midari and Fatemeh Mohajerani attend the Shasta innovation pioneers conference in Tehran.
Mehr News
An UAE royal and government delegation visits The Pinkfong Company to explore innovation in children's and family entertainment.
Google News – UAE
Al-Ghadeer TV reports that an Iraqi government spokesperson says the 2027 budget uses an oil price of $58 per barrel.
Al-Ghadeer TV
An Iranian lawmaker says rising production costs threaten industry.
Google News – Iran
The Qatar Central Bank governor meets the Bank of Italy governor, according to Qatar News Agency.
أخبار جوجل – قطر
Al Arabiya reports that Kuwait has raised oil production to its highest level since the start of the war linked to Iran.
أخبار جوجل – إيران
Iraq's government spokesperson says the 2027 budget includes making 500,000 contract and daily-wage workers permanent.
Al-Ghadeer TV
Tasnim says U.S. gasoline averages $4.27 per gallon, up 37% since Trump took office, and attributes the rise to conflict involving Iran and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.
Tasnim
Al Bayan reports that the United Arab Emirates is participating in an investment summit in Canada.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Daily News Egypt reports that the Egyptian government plans to cut spending and increase strategic reserves.
Google News – Egypt
An European gas contract falls 10%, with the report citing hopes for an agreement between the United States and Iran.
أخبار جوجل – إيران
Ship & Bunker attributes a 7% drop in oil prices to alleged progress toward peace between the United States and Iran.
Google News – Iran
The UAE says its oil exports have risen six months after leaving OPEC, as it hosts the ADIPEC conference in Abu Dhabi.
القدس العربي
Lebanon and Qatar are discussing a comprehensive electricity agreement, while energy imports via Syria could begin within a year, CNN Economic reports.
أخبار جوجل – سوريا · أخبار جوجل – لبنان · أخبار جوجل – قطر
Al Habtoor Group decides to sell all its assets and investments in Lebanon.
أخبار جوجل – لبنان · Google News – Lebanon · Al-Monitor +1
Business Wire reports Mohammed Al Hakim’s appointment as MultiBank Group board vice chairman and MB.io CEO; it values the group at $32 billion.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Dragon Oil targets raising its production to 200,000 barrels per day by 2030.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
MEMRI reports that Qatar and Pakistan will not cooperate with US sanctions on Iran.
Google News – Qatar
Quartz reports that U.S. stocks rebounded and oil prices fell more than 6% amid hopes for peace between the United States and Iran.
Google News – Iran
European stocks close higher as oil prices fall amid hopes for an US-Iran deal; travel and leisure shares rise, while energy stocks fall 2.3%.
Anadolu Agency
Iranian Labor Minister Ahmad Meydari says transparent company transactions and changes to pricing mechanisms can increase business profitability.
IRNA
Nisr targets production of 30,000 tonnes of lithium in Saudi Arabia and is studying expansion in Egypt and Oman.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية
The Wall Street Journal reports that oil futures retreat as diplomatic efforts in the Middle East pick up.
Google News – Iran
Mohamed bin Hadi Al Hussaini says financial innovation is a key pillar of national economic sustainability and a driver of growth.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) is negotiating two solar power projects and awaiting an opportunity in Saudi Arabia, Asharq Bloomberg reports.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية
Philippine senator Erwin Tulfo promotes a proposed 2027 petroleum-reserve deal involving the UAE, with UAE funding for tanks and inventory left uncertain.
Google News – UAE
Iranian Pharmacists Association spokesperson Hadi Ahmadi says Iran has medicine shortages but no medicine crisis, citing liquidity problems and calling for a 1405 budget supplement.
IRNA
Egypt's finance minister says the private sector accounts for 65% of investments as the government prioritizes incentives.
Google News – Egypt
Anadolu reports Brent crude falls 6% to $106.4 a barrel, citing hopes for progress in Qatar’s mediation to end the war involving Iran and ease oil supply disruptions.
وكالة الأناضول
Kirkuk Deputy Governor Rebwar Taha directs the private generator association to operate generators; his media office says he secured approval to raise the city's electricity allocation from 650 to 800 megawatts.
رووداو
The FTSE 100 rises for a fourth consecutive day as oil prices fall amid expectations of an US-Iran deal, Reuters reports.
Google News – Iran
Al Bayan characterizes Emirates' response to an Airbus commercial setback as a global strategic success.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
S&P says Saudi Arabia is emerging as a global hub for critical minerals.
Google News – Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's tourism minister launches the Northern Route as part of the Saudi Winter 2026 program.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية
Four food-sector exhibitions in Dubai draw 2,500 exhibitors from 79 countries.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Iranian Food and Drug Organization spokesperson Mohammad Hashemi says some medicine ingredients have not arrived due to what he described as a blockade, but supplies, including psychiatric medicines, were obtained.
IRNA
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says many Syrians face higher prices for basic goods and lower purchasing power, about 16 months after the start of US sanctions relief.
أخبار جوجل – سوريا
Iran's Food and Drug Organization spokesman Mohammad Hashemi says the agency had four heads in three years under Ebrahim Raisi, citing insurance, debt and short-term management problems.
IRNA
Iraq's parliamentary electricity committee discusses with the Ministry of Electricity updates on electricity interconnection with Turkey, Gulf states and Jordan.
أخبار جوجل – تركيا