Turkey’s government ran a budget surplus of 3.6 billion Turkish liras ($1.2 billion) in August and 4.9 billion liras ($1.64 billion) in January-August, said Turkish Finance Minister Naci Agbal on Monday.  “Public finance is the main anchor that the foundation of the solid Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's Minister of Labour Sajaan Qazzi has announced a new era in dealing with Syrian refugees in Lebanon when he said: “Syria for Syrians, and Syrians to go to Syria”, considering that Syrians in Lebanon form pressure and burden on the country. Qazzi expressed that he...

The refugee crisis unleashed by the Syrian conflict has pushed the number of asylum seekers globally to a post-war record high, lifting overall migration flows, the OECD said on Monday. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's 35 member states saw the number asylum seekers...

Indonesia plans to pursue Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than $400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided tax payments, a senior tax official told Reuters. Muhammad Hanif, head of the tax office's...