Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 15. The first nine months of 2025 were favorable for Azerbaijan’s economy, and over this period, the current account balance (CAB) showed a surplus of $3 billion, which is 5.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the Director of the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA), Samir…
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The White House has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump wanted to ban during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump in various events with Kendrick Lamar’s track playing in the background. The New York Times notes that it references a popular video edit of Creed, a boxing movie…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 23. We forecast a current account balance surplus of around $3.6 billion by the end of this year, the Chairman of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) Taleh Kazimov said at a press conference on the interest rate corridor parameters today,Trend reports. Kazimov noted that the current account surplus is…
Shorouk Express Good morning Welcome to our rolling coverage of the latest developments from the fallout of the Trump administration’s reversal of its pledge to release documents from the investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We’ll be recapping how the administration’s decision has enraged some of President Donald Trump’s base and the latest…
AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly common in recent…
There’s no shortage of reasons to stay off the Meta ecosystem, which includes Facebook and Instagram, but there are some places where WhatsApp remains the main form of text-based communication. The app is a great alternative to SMS, since it offers end-to-end encryption and was one of the go-to methods to send uncompressed photos and…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 15 June 2025 14:26 (UTC +04:00) Kazakhstan’s current account balance is expected to remain in deficit through 2027, with projections worsening due to falling export revenues and persistently strong demand for imported goods, according to the latest economic outlook by the National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK). Access to…
Update May 14, 6:38PM ET: Valve has confirmed that Steam systems were not breached and identifying user data has not been stolen or accessed by hackers. The company provided clarification in a Steam blog post: “We’re still digging into the source of the leak, which is compounded by the fact that any SMS messages are…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 21. Iran is ready to reach an agreement with the United States on its nuclear program, provided that its national interests are taken into account, Iranian President Mahmoud Pezeshkian said at a meeting with the governors of the country’s regions, Trend reports. “As for negotiations with the United States, we…
