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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Russian officials have expressed their intent in strengthening the partnership between Moscow and Khartoum within the framework of the bilateral agreement between the two states in hosting a naval base on the
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On Thursday, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a statement announcing that an Iranian-based money network and some of its members had been imposed sanctions.
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Bahrain streets experienced a rare demonstration that erupted following the death of a political prisoner, Husain Barakat, on late Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters held demonstrations in the streets of the village of
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Khaled Mazen, Minister of Interior of the Unity Government, and Emad Al-Din Al-Sayeh, Chairman of the Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC), met on Wednesday, June 9th. The parties discussed the latest
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The US Special Envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, met with Deputy Prime Minister Ramadan Abu Jinnah to discuss security issues in the south of the country, the consolidation of the army and
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah insisted on Wednesday that Lebanon should be “negotiating with Iran to buy gasoline and diesel with Lebanese currency if Lebanon’s shortages persist” in a statement regarded as defiance
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Five rockets targeted Iraq’s Balad airbase, with two of the projectiles falling near an area used by US contractors without causing casualties, a security official told AFP. “There were no victims or
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Three Palestinians were killed early Thursday by special Israeli forces who were on an arrest mission in the northern West Bank, sources on both sides said. One of the Palestinians killed was
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It was reported that the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh, arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to hold several talks with Iraqi officials. Quoting from the spokesperson for the Iraqi Ministry of
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