Dubai’s tourism industry closed a successful decade at the end of 2019, welcoming 16.73 million international overnight visitors, an all-time high, and an impressive 5.1 percent increase in tourism volumes, surpassing the global tourism growth forecast by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation by over one percent.

Two P-3C surveillance aircraft of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) have begun an intelligence-gathering mission along a commercial maritime passage in the Middle East amid growing tensions in the region, Japan's NHK broadcaster reported on Tuesday

Serbia is hoping to get the first gas supplies from Russia through the TurkStream pipeline by the end of the year, President Alexander Vucic told Sputnik on Tuesday

International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Tuesday in an interview with Sputnik that Germany's new initiative to gradually abandon coal power would have a limited effect on the global energy market

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is planning to announce the creation of a new payment system in Russia with the participation of China's Alibaba Group, RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev said Tuesday

Russia's foreign debt in 2019 increased by $26.8 billion, or 5.9 percent, to $481.5 billion, the Central Bank said Tuesday