{"id":647803,"date":"2017-05-21T04:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T04:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/21\/international-news-on-21-may-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T04:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T04:04:57","slug":"international-news-on-21-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/21\/international-news-on-21-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"International news on 21 May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the international news stories worth knowing about this morning:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reformer Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran\u2019s president in a landslide<\/strong><strong>victory<\/strong> and sent a quick message to conservatives that he would accelerate the country\u2019s opening to the outside world: \u201cToday, Iran is standing taller than at any time before and is ready to expand its relations with the world based on mutual respect and national interests. Today, the world knows that Iranians have chosen the path of interaction with the world away from extremism and violence.\u201d Rouhani \u201creinvented himself as a bold champion of reform during the campaign,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-election-idUSKCN18E2Y8\">Reuters reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earnings at Europe\u2019s biggest companies grew faster than those of their US<\/strong><strong>competitors in 1Q2017. <\/strong>\u201cEurope\u2019s largest companies are on track to record their strongest quarter of profit growth in almost seven years, benefiting from something the continent hasn\u2019t seen since before the global economic crisis: a willingness among consumers\u2014and other companies\u2014to spend again. \u2026 Earnings at Europe\u2019s biggest companies leapt ahead 23% in the first quarter, analysis shows, versus comparable 14% rise in U.S.,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/europe-inc-sprints-ahead-of-u-s-1495209670\">Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the international news stories worth knowing about this morning: Reformer Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran\u2019s president in a landslidevictory and sent a quick message to conservatives that he would accelerate the country\u2019s opening to the outside world: \u201cToday, Iran is standing taller than at any time before and is ready to expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-647803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"da732ee0-585c-40d6-8792-e7b81f7e16f2","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"ccc3705a-82e8-447b-b7cc-1234376e042f","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[647785],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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