- Iranian foreign minister suggested a swap between Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and an Iranian woman held in Australia
- Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 and accused of plotting against the government
- The minimum wage, currently 2,570 dirhams a month ($266), will be increased by 10 percent over two years from July
- Last July King Mohammed VI urged the government to take “urgent action” to address social issues
- At Hanoi, Pyongyang demanded immediate relief from US sanctions, but the two sides disagreed over what the North was prepared to give up in return
- Russia has already called for the sanctions to be eased, while the US has accused it of trying to help Pyongyang evade some of the measures
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- SRC CEO Fabrice Susini: One of our key objectives is to ensure that the banks are extending loans to more and more people
- Extending home-ownership is one of the cornerstones of the Vision 2030 strategy to diversify the economy away from oil production
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- Using social media, he spread pro-Daesh propaganda under the banner Al-Ghuraba Media
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- It is already banned in neighboring Bangladesh and was hit with an enormous fine in the US
- The case against TikTok was launched by an activist group that said the app encouraged paedophiles and pornography
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