By: ONA
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Muscat: The total value of property transactions in the Sultanate at the end of April 2021 increased by 24.8 percent to reach OMR991 million.
The collected real estate transaction fees were OMR28.6 million, comprising a rise by 47.4 percent.
The traded value of sales contracts by the end of April 2021 went up by 81.1 percent to reach OMR424.5 million, and the number of executed sales contracts saw a rise by 123.9 percent to reach 31,175 compared to 13,923 contracts in April 2020.
The traded value of mortgage contracts went up 1.3 percent to reach OMR558.5 million compared to OMR551.2 million in the same period of 2020. The number of mortgage contracts reached 6,427 comprising a surge by 79.8 percent compared to 3,575 in April 2020.
Moscow court set to disband pro-Navalny organizations
By: DW
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday was considering a request by prosecutors to disband organizations linked to jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny Wednesday.
Moscow s chief prosecutor accuses Navalny and his allies of attempting to destabilize Russia socially and politically.
How is the Russian state targeting Navalny s organizations?
By labeling Navalny s network extremist, the Russian state is using a tactic previously used to dismantle certain far-right and Islamist groups within the country as well as the Jehovah s witnesses.
The move grants the Russian state formal power to jail activists and freeze their bank accounts.
The European Parliament announced its authorization of the use of digital COVID certificates within the European Union on Wednesday, saying that it is now up to member states to apply the rules
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday defended not visiting the US-Mexico border during her trip to the Central American country following criticism for not prioritizing the shared frontier