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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On Sunday, the Sudanese military announced that six Sudanese soldiers were killed in an attack in the disputed Al-Fashaga border area with Ethiopia. The editor of the Sudanese Armed Forces newspaper, Ibrahim
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Turkey’s National Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that the Turkish military destroyed a cave used by the PKK terror group in northern Iraq and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
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On Saturday, Sudan’s police chief and his deputy were dismissed from the post by Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. According to a cabinet statement, Lieutenant-General Khaled Mahdi Ibrahim Al-Emam and his deputy
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Over the weekend, Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, met with the interim Taliban-led Afghan government in Doha, during which all parties emphasized the need for humanitarian aid and human
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Voting has started for early local elections in Algeria, where provincial and municipal council members will be determined. The voting process, which started at 08:00 local time, ended at 18:00. More than
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On Saturday, a travel ban was imposed on seven African countries by Iran after the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant. The head of Iran’s Center for Disease Control, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya,
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The permanent military court in Misrata sentenced warlord Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the armed forces in the east and a candidate for the December 24 presidential election to death, at his
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Despite allegations that the business was about to withdraw owing to a lack of cooperation, Lebanon’s central bank has announced that it will comply with all data demands from the consulting company
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Two flights carrying more than 600 Iraqi Kurds who were stranded along the Belarus-Poland border landed in Erbil in the early hours of Friday. According to the Iraqi Transport Ministry, 608 Iraqi
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