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, Algeria summoned its ambassador to Rabat for consultations, and did not rule out “taking other measures.” In protest against statements made by Morocco’s representative to the United Nations, which it
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The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres named Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg for the position of UN Special Representative for Yemen. While the Secretary-General informed the UN Security Council’s 15 member states, the appointment
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Pilgrims began arriving in Mecca on Saturday for the second downsized Hajj conducted during the COVID-19 outbreak, wearing masks and walking on separated routes around Islam’s holiest site, according to Al Jazeera.
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Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister and the visiting Head of the United Nations Department of Operational Support addressed Ethiopia’s involvement in UN peacekeeping deployments, notably in Abyei. Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen discussed the “good
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Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings downgraded Kuwait’s rating by one notch on the ground of the Gulf country’s lack of a funding strategy to fund its deficit. The news
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The House of Representatives (HoR), which convened on Friday, discussed the budget submitted by the Government of National Unity (GNU). The Speaker of the HoR Aguila Saleh, who took the floor after
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The UN Special Envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, stated that the failure of domestic institutions and the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to establish the country’s constitutional basis before the elections triggered
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Making a statement to the press on the occasion of the end of the legislative term of the parliament, al-Malki evaluated the diplomatic crisis that broke out between Morocco and Spain with
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Morocco and Israel signed, on Thursday, their first cooperation agreement in the field of cyber defense. The head of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Rabat, David Govrin, explained in a tweet that
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Qatar’s $300 billion sovereign wealth fund is establishing a regional center in Singapore as part of its efforts to diversify a portfolio heavily weighted toward Europe and the United States, according to
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