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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Intra-Yemeni talks, sponsored by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), got underway on Wednesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. GCC Secretary-General Nayef al-Hajjaf said “today’s talks are being closely watched by all Yemenis, with
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Officials say Qatar will invest $5 billion in Egypt, a sign that relations between the two countries are improving. The announcement comes as Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani wrapped
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President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) Salem al-Meslet met with Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of the Ukrainian delegation Emine Dzhaparova on the sidelines of the 20th version of the Doha
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Officials have stated that Iraqi legislators have failed to elect a new president for lack of a quorum for a third time, deepening the war-scarred country’s political crisis. The continued failure by
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The United States assured Israel of its security by pledging to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. “The best way to put Iran’s program back in the box it was in,” he
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The EU justice agency announced on Monday that France, Germany, and Luxembourg had seized and frozen assets worth $130 million in connection with money laundering in Lebanon. The seizures are linked to
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The United Nations (UN) Special Adviser to Libya Stephanie Williams met with political party officials in Libya in an online meeting. During the talks, Williams called on the High Council of State
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On his first visit to the occupied West Bank since 2017, Jordan’s King Abdullah met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for two hours in Ramallah on Monday. Earlier, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair
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Israeli, US, UAE, Moroccan, Bahraini, and Egyptian foreign ministers met for the first time ever on Monday in Israel. Egyptian FM spokesperson Ahmed Hafez tweeted on Sunday that Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh
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According to an Israeli diplomat on Monday, Israel will soon appoint a military attaché to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. “Israel will soon appoint a military attache to the US
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