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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According to an outlet linked with the country’s top security body, Iran has “temporarily suspended” direct talks with Saudi Arabia. Although the fifth round of talks between the two regional rivals was
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Eyal David, Israel’s Deputy Head of the Diplomatic Mission in Rabat, said in a written statement on his social media account that Dorit Avidani was appointed as Israel’s consul to Morocco. Emphasizing
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On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Istanbul in a meeting behind closed doors. The Turkish presidency’s communications directorate said on Sunday that the two
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Saudi Arabia has executed 81 people in the last 24 hours, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian national, on charges of “allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations” and holding “deviant beliefs,” thus making
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An armed convoy supporting Fathi Bashagha, who is backed by the Tobruk-based parliament in Libya, departed from the capital Tripoli on Thursday. After Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh announced that he would
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Iraqi security officials have stated that as many as 12 missiles were fired early on Sunday toward the US consulate in Iraq’s northern city of Erbil. Missiles have been launched at the
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Dozens of Yemeni children have been killed or wounded in conflicts around the nation in the last two months, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “Just over the first two
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Lebanon announced that Russia has made an offer to build an oil refinery in the Arab country. “We received a general offer from a private Russian company, and it may crystallize over
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On Friday, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stated that talks for the revival of the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna need to be suspended due to “external factors.” Borrell wrote on
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Aviv Kochavi, the Israeli army’s chief of staff, met with Bahraini Defense Minister Khalifa bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa in Manama to discuss regional stability. According to the Bahraini state news agency, the two
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