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 Monday, authorities stated they had discovered the remains of 143 unidentified people killed between 2014-2017 when the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group was in control of northern Iraq’s Nineveh province. A mass grave
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Egypt has been called on by Amnesty International to release a veteran journalist who has been detained since May 21, 2021. Urging Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to free 66-year-old Tawfik Ghanem,
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with Israel’s prime minister and the leader of the United Arab Emirates on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, two Egyptian security sources say. The trilateral meeting comes
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Cases against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) totaling $900 million have been dismissed by a US court in New York. Relatives of Jews who were killed in West
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Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, met with his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on Monday. Two ministers addressed a number of problems, including the conflict in Ukraine.
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Jordan eased COVID-19 restrictions on Monday in preparation for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which is set to begin in early April. Faisal Shboul, Minister of State for Media Affairs, announced
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On Saturday, according to a security officer, Iraqi security forces launched a military operation to pursue Daesh/ISIS militants in the northern Salahuddin province. The officer in question said, on condition of anonymity,
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A new round of talks involving the Constitutional Committee, seeking a solution to the ongoing 11-year war in Syria, resumed in Geneva on Monday. The five days of talks scheduled to end
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The social media account of the US Embassy in Tunisia included a message by Blinken on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of Tunisia’s independence from France. In his message, Blinken celebrated
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Germany and Qatar have achieved an agreement on a long-term energy partnership as Europe’s largest economy strives to reduce its reliance on Russian energy sources. Germany’s major gas supplier is Russia. Since
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