A senior US source says that US Vice President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at next month’s G20 conference in Indonesia, as tensions over the OPEC+ agreement to curb oil output continue to resonate. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that President Joe Biden would be “methodical” in determining how to react to Saudi Arabia about the
On Friday, the Lebanese energy minister said that Qatar is interested in collaborating with TotalEnergies and Eni to explore oil in two regions of the Lebanese seas. Walid Fayad said during a meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati that Qatar wants to join the partnership exploring for oil in blocks 4 and 9 in the Eastern Mediterranean. According to Fayad, Qatari Oil Minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi sent a letter expressing
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After seven months of payment freezes, Egypt and Qatar agreed Monday on a system to pay salaries to public personnel in the besieged Gaza Strip. A deal “began taking shape” in November,
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Turkey has established a new residential region in Syria’s Idlib to host displaced Syrians in a decade-long war. The construction of some 30,000 out of the planned 50,000 brick houses in the
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Ethiopia has denied staging an attack along its shared border with Sudan over the weekend, blaming disturbances in the disputed zone on rebels from the country’s war-torn Tigray province. Legesse Tulu, an
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On Monday, talks in Vienna between Iran and world powers on the restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal kicked off following a five-month break. Iranian, Chinese, French, German, Russian, and British diplomats
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In a statement by the Lebanese Presidency, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani expressed that he will send Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani to Beirut to explore methods to assist
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The Libyan High Council of State (HCS) announced that it condemned the attack by the personnel of the Ministry of Interior, against Mahmoud Abdelaziz Al-Werfalli, a member of the General National Congress
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that he plans to pay a return visit to the UAE in February. Speaking to reporters on his return from a trip to Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat,
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In a statement made by the Moroccan COVID-19 Monitoring Committee, it was stated that flights to Morocco were suspended in order to protect the gains made in the fight against the pandemic,
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On Sunday, a trilateral gas swap deal was signed between Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkmenistan envisioning up to two billion cubic meters per year. The oil ministers of the three countries, in the
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