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 Saturday, Tunisia’s support for a solution based on dialogue and consensus to the crisis in Libya was emphasized by Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi. On the sidelines of an extraordinary summit
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Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Saturday that Turkish security forces “neutralized” at least 18 PKK terrorists as part of the country’s Operation Claw-Lock in northern Iraq. Adding that Turkish forces are
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Two Greek oil tankers have been seized in the Persian Gulf allegedly for committing “violations,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced. Greek oil tankers Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon have been
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Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian journalist, was killed by an armor-piercing bullet fired directly at her head by an Israeli sniper, according to Palestinian attorney-general Akram Al-Khatib. At a news conference
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Iraq’s parliament has enacted a law, making normalizing relations with Israel a criminal punishable by death or life imprisonment. The law, titled “Criminalizing Normalization and Establishment of Relations with the Zionist Entity,”
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On Thursday, underlining that US interests and foreign policy have been “taken hostage” by Israel, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran is committed to reaching a deal during the Vienna nuclear
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On Thursday, in Aden city in the south of Yemen, five civilians were killed in a blast in a public market. An explosive device was placed in a garbage container in a
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On Wednesday, parliamentary elections were suggested to be held at the end of 2022 by Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, who also added to start preparations for polls in June. Dbeibeh,
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On Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid at the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Jerusalem headquarters. The two top diplomats will hold a joint press conference after
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