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The Baniyas port refinery on the Mediterranean Sea is seen in Iraq. About 90 per cent of the country's crude exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz. AFP

Moody's changes Bahrain and Iraq's outlook to negative over war fallout

Jordan remains stable on 'solid' macroeconomic policymaking

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