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’s lead negotiator on Sunday said his country seeks a “swift conclusion” to the marathon negotiations, in an indication that the next round of talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal could
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The restoration of civilian rule in Sudan was demanded during fresh demonstrations that erupted in the country on Sunday. According to a reporter, thousands of protesters rallied in the capital Khartoum, with
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Sunday saw the partial collapse of grain silos at Beirut’s blast-damaged port, four days before the second anniversary of the catastrophic explosion in the Lebanese capital in 2020. Grain silos at the
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Political dialogue between the country’s political rivals in Erbil was called for by the head of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, on Sunday. Barzani said in a statement, “KRG
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On Saturday, following the breaching of its building by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, the parliament speaker announced that Iraq’s parliament session was suspended. Mohammed al-Halbousi said the country is going through difficult
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According to state media, an open sit-in protest started by supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr inside the parliament on Saturday after they breached the building in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. Ibrahim
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On Saturday, for the second time in a week, supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone as they were protesting the nomination of
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During negotiations in Paris between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron, regarded as a diplomatic rehabilitation of the de facto ruler of the Saudi kingdom, energy was
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According to a Lebanese official, a Syrian ship carrying grain that was stolen from Ukraine was anchored in Tripoli Port in Lebanon. Amin Salam, the minister of commerce for Lebanon, told the
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