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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President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition Salem al-Meslet sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calling for the expulsion of the Assad regime from the UN and all international organizations. Al-Meslet
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On Wednesday, after Egypt’s Central Bank (ECB) raised its main interest rate and devalued the currency by 14 percent, the Egyptian pound slipped further against the dollar. In order to combat inflationary
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Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has expressed satisfaction with the “positive points” contained in a statement by Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati, indicating that Beirut’s tensions with Gulf Arab states are easing. Lebanon’s
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On Wednesday, the Al-Sadr party of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the Sunni Sovereignty Alliance announced an agreement on naming KDP nominee Reber Ahmed for the Iraqi presidency and
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Israeli media reported on March 21 that Jordan’s King Abdullah II will visit Ramallah next week and meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to avert a possible security escalation during Ramadan.
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Hans Grundberg, the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, called on the country’s warring parties to take efforts to minimize bloodshed and alleviate the suffering of Yemenis on Wednesday. Grundberg also encouraged all
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Voicing the Levant country as “the key to the stability in the Middle East,” Italian President Sergio Mattarella urged international support for Lebanon. According to a source in the Italian presidency, Mattarella,
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According to a written statement from Algeria’s national oil company Sonatrach, an agreement was reached with two companies from China to extract phosphate in the Tibessa region in the east of the
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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh said on Sunday that a dialogue committee was established to draft a new election law. According to the Libyan state news agency LANA, Dbeibeh said that
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On Monday, Mount Lebanon District Court Investigative Judge Ghada Aoun announced that she had indicted Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh and his brother Raja Salameh, who was arrested last week. Following
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