Trending Middle East

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, the prices of imported items on Lebanon's supermarket shelves have been displayed in dollars ― an attempt by the Ministry of Economy on Wednesday to regulate flagrant price manipulation as the Lebanese pound continues to depreciate rapidly. UAE astronaut Sultan Al Ney...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has enriched uranium to a little less than the 90 per cent needed to produce an atom bomb. The Security Council calls for immediate de-escalation and an end to “unilateral actions” after a surge of deadly violence in th...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, Nasa has set a new launch date for the SpaceX rocket carrying Emirati astronaut Dr Sultan Al Neyadi after Monday's blast-off was postponed. The Crew-6 mission from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station is provisionally scheduled for launch at 9.34am UAE ti...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, UAE astronaut Dr Sultan Al Neyadi is part of the Crew-6 flight scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a mission to the International Space Station. Nasa and SpaceX have given the green light for the launch to go ahead at 10.45am UAE time, wi...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, officially opens the UAE's freight train network during an event held at the main control and maintenance centre in Abu Dhabi’s Al Fayah region. A Lebanese judge charges Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh,...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, inflation in Lebanon continues to rise, hitting an annual rate of about 124% in January, as the country's worst economic and financial crises in decades continue amid a deadlock that has blocked the formation of a new government and the enactment of reforms required t...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, plans for a new rail network connecting the UAE to Oman takes a major step forward with a $3 billion investment deal. The second-longest ancient papyrus, or long piece of inscribed ancient paper, discovered in Egypt is unveiled at opening of renovated Egyptian Museum...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, a new 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits the Turkey-Syria border region at a depth of 7.7km, killing three people and injuring 213. The UN Security Council approves a statement expressing “dismay” at Israel's plans to legalise settlements on occupied Palestinian territorie...

Cody Combs gives a round-up of today’s trends.

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, a UAE-drafted UN Security Council resolution calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory” is expected to be put to a vote on Monday. The death toll from earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has clim...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed orders an additional $50 million in aid to support people in Syria affected by last week's earthquake. Jordan's parliament passes the state budget for this year, forecasting slight deficit reduction and constant inflation and economic grow...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, anticipation builds up as Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is expected to speak on the final day of the World Government Summit in Dubai. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will never forget the help sent by others after last week's powerful earth...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, Syrian President Bashar Al Assad agrees to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid through two more border crossings from Turkey for an initial period of three months. Rescuers pull a boy, 13, from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey's southern Hatay p...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, the UN's emergency relief co-ordinator Martin Griffiths says the humanitarian agency has failed the people of north-west Syria after efforts to deliver aid to the victims of last week's earthquake stall. The three-day World Government Summit officially begins in the U...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, more than 21,000 people have been killed in Turkey and Syria as a result of Monday's earthquake. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Washington while UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expresses his hope that more than...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, the EU will supply funding to Turkey and Syria through its Civil Protection Mechanism and emergency humanitarian assistance worth €6.5 million ($7m). Twitter says they are “working” to fix problems experienced by users on the social platform. Moody's Investors Service...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the Middle East and around the world. On today's episode, more than 7,800 have been killed as a result of the earthquake that affected Turkey, Syria and other neighbouring countries. The ICRC called on Syria’s warring sides to allow aid groups into rebel-held Idlib to assist victims of the earthquake. US President Joe B...

Cody Combs gives a round-up of today's trends

Cody Combs gives a round-up of today's trends

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, UAE universities will be allowed to set their own entry requirements for pupils studying at publicly run schools. US President Joe Biden hosts Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House while the Central Bank of Egypt keeps interest rates steady at its first meeting...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, the UAE Central Bank and other regulators in the Gulf raise their benchmark borrowing rates as they follows in the steps of the US Federal Reserve. India's Adani Enterprises calls off its $2.5 billion follow-on share sale as it blames “volatile market conditions”. The...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the Middle East and around the world. In today's episode, Lebanon will adopt a new official exchange rate of 15,000 pounds to the US dollar. The UAE and France have agreed to develop commercial and investment opportunities as part of the Cop28 global climate summit. Demand for gold rose by 18 per cent last year, with ce...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the Middle East and around the world. On today's episode, Emirates has successfully completed a demonstration flight powered by 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, opened the 48th Arab Health event. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called o...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the Middle East and around the world. On today's episode, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrives in Egypt at start of Middle East tour, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday after an investigation found he committed a serious breach. QatarEnergy has signed a...

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the Middle East and around the world.   On today's episode, more rain is forecast across the Emirates, with some schools taking the decision to move to online learning.   US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank at the end of the January, as tension soars between Israelis and P...