The Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) held an extraordinary meeting today, Friday, chaired by His Excellency President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the Council, with the attendance of its members Aidaroos al-Zubaidi, Sultan al-Arada, Tariq Saleh, Abdul-Rahman al-Mahrami and Dr. Abdullah al-Alimi, and via videoconferencing, the Council's members Othman Mujalli and Faraj al-Bahsani.
Excellent wine practices and global trends in wine tourism will be among the topics on the second day of the 9th UN Tourism Global Conference on Wine Tourism in Plovdiv.
Gold prices rose today, Friday, heading towards achieving weekly gains for the eighth consecutive time, driven by strong demand for safe-haven assets amid ongoing geopolitical and economic uncertainty.
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The gross domestic product (GDP) in the Eurozone and the European Union (EU) registered a growth of 0.3 percent during the first quarter of the current year compared to the previous quarter.
The EU's statistics office (Eurostat) clarified in a report today, Thursday, that this increase comes after a growth of 0.2 percent in the Eurozone and 0.4 percent in the EU during the last quarter of 2024.
The report indicated that the GDP in the Eurozone recorded an annual growth of 1.2 percent in the first quarter of 2025, while the annual growth in the EU reached 1.4 percent, the same rates recorded during the last quarter of 2024.