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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Iran stated on Monday, in its first response since the attempted assassination of Salman Rushdie, that the writer and his fans were responsible for the attack. In a weekly press briefing in
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On Sunday, Jordanian security personnel conducted operations in an area near the Syrian border to stem the supply of illicit drugs, according to the country’s official news agency. The region to the
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Calling on the United States to show flexibility to resolve three remaining issues, Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran will respond to the European Union’s “final” draft text to save a 2015 nuclear
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Talks in Vienna earlier this month to restore its 2015 nuclear deal yielded results but did not fully address Tehran’s expectations, Iran’s foreign ministry stated. “Considerable progress” had been made during several
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Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council voiced on Sunday that it does not have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament. Amid a deep political crisis in the country, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called
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The United Nations said that at least 77 Yemenis have been killed by heavy rains and flooding in the war-torn country. In a statement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
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The Coptic Church announced that at least 41 people were killed and 14 others injured in a fire that erupted at an Egyptian church west of Cairo early on Sunday. Egypt’s state
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Saturday marked the beginning of a combined military exercise between Saudi and American forces in the Red Sea region of Yanbu, according to the Saudi state news agency. The month-long “Native Fury
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On Saturday, the Egyptian Parliament approved a Cabinet change involving 13 ministers. One day after, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called for an extraordinary assembly session to adopt the amendments. The ministers
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