Attacks on the UAE and Bahrain drive up the commodity’s price. Oil rises amid renewed threats to the Strait of Hormuz, while a desalination plant in Kuwait is also targeted in retaliations.

On Sunday (29), Arab foreign ministers approved the nomination of former Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy to head the League of Arab States starting in July. The decision still needs to be endorsed at the organization’s next summit.

The Brazilian government has scrapped import duties on machinery and IT products whose tariffs had been raised in February, after hearing from companies that cited a lack of domestic production and insufficient supply in the local market.

Brazil’s Arab Community Day was celebrated on Wednesday evening (25) at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce with the launch of the children’s book The Peddler, by Salem Nasser, and of a map portraying these immigrants’ legacy in the city of São Paulo.