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Home2020August

Month: August 2020

Israel Latest News

US-Israeli delegation lands in Emirates for normalization summit

August 31, 2020 MEO Staff

The flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi was the first direct commercial flight between the two countries The first official direct flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates landed on Monday, ahead of [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

For 1st time, Israeli plane flies over Saudi airspace to UAE

August 31, 2020 MEO Staff

An airliner carrying Israeli and US delegations to the UAE on Monday flew over Saudi Arabia as the first publicly acknowledged entry of an Israeli plane into Saudi air space, reported Reuters. Israel’s flag carrier El [ More … ]

Analysis

Turkey to EU: ‘Turkey will not pull back’

August 31, 2020 Ahmed Rashed

Tensions between NATO members Greece and Turkey escalated again. Both sides are staging navy drills. In a message on NAVTEX, the international maritime navigational system, Turkey said it would carry out “gunnery exercises” from Saturday [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

UAE behind fatal drone strike that killed 26 cadets in Libya: Investigation

August 28, 2020 MEO Staff

Investigation reveals that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind the lethal drone strike that killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libyan capital Tripoli The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind a [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Sisi to prosecute 54 million people for boycotting mock elections

August 27, 2020 MEO Staff

Egypt’s National Elections Authority said boycotting the Senate vote should result in prosecution Egypt’s election commission on Wednesday announced it would refer around 45 million citizens who did not vote in this month’s Senate elections to [ More … ]

Ethiopia

Amid Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan dam crisis, Abiy Ahmed visits Khartoum to boost relations

August 26, 2020 MEO Staff

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, arrived in Sudan Tuesday on a one-day visit aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. SUNA said Ahmed was received at Khartoum airport by his [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

Pompeo flies from Israel to Sudan to push normalization with Tel Aviv

August 25, 2020 MEO Staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan today, Tuesday, as part of a regional tour to urge Arab states to normalize ties with Israel despite widespread opposition. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Sudan on [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

Libya: Haftar rejects GNA’s call for ceasefire

August 24, 2020 MEO Staff

Haftar’s militias dismiss ceasefire announcement as ‘marketing’ stunt, says GNA is planning a Turkish-backed offensive on Sirte Renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces have dismissed a ceasefire announcement by Libya’s internationally recognized government as a [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Hamas criticizes Cairo’s support for UAE-Israel deal while Mossad chief meets top Sudan official in Abu Dhabi

August 23, 2020 MEO Staff

Chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday his movement’s opposition to Egyptian support for the UAE-Israel normalization deal. Speaking to TRT World, Haniyeh criticized the UAE-Israel deal and reiterated that it came about [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

Libyan government orders immediate cease-fire

August 21, 2020 MEO Staff

A Libyan government statement on Friday ordered an immediate cease-fire for all military forces and combat operations in the war-torn country. “Cease-fire requires demilitarization of the Sirte and Jufra regions with security arrangements,” the statement [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

Turkey discovers major natural gas reserves

August 21, 2020 Ahmed Rashed

President Erdogan says 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves found by drillship Fatih in the Black Sea. Turkey’s president on Friday announced the discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Black Sea, [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty calls on Egyptian authorities to open prison visits without discrimination

August 20, 2020 MEO Staff

Amnesty International calls upon authorities to allow family visits as well as regular contacts with lawyers to all detainees in Sisi’s prisons Amnesty has called on the coup authorities in Egypt to allow all detainees [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Bloomberg: Twitter Breach Tied to Saudi Dissident Arrests

August 19, 2020 MEO Staff

Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents An internal breach at Twitter Inc. a half decade ago yielded data that was later used by Saudi Arabia to [ More … ]

Lebanon

Hezbollah’s chief defendant in Hariri murder convicted, 3 other members acquitted

August 18, 2020 MEO Staff

Salim Jamil Ayyash found guilty of committing a terrorist attack and murder over the killing of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, and 21 others in 2005 The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

UAE arrests opponents of peace deal with Israel

August 17, 2020 MEO Staff

The UAE State Security Agency has secretly arrested scores of Emiratis, Palestinians and Jordanians living in the UAE for opposing Abu-Dhabi’s peace deal with Israel. The Emirates Leaks website quoted human rights sources as saying [ More … ]

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