Agreement includes a $1.65bn contract for the establishment and operation of a training center for the Greek air force. Greece and Israel have signed their biggest ever defense procurement deal, which Israel said would strengthen [ More … ]
The Turkish and French presidents have exchanged letters in which they have agreed to resume talks aimed at mending ties. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote a New Year message to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, [ More … ]
Gulf leaders are meeting in Saudi Arabia for their annual summit amid a breakthrough in the long-running dispute between a Saudi-led bloc and Qatar. Qatar’s ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani arrived to Saudi [ More … ]
Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said he was a possible candidate to head a new government to stem the country’s economic collapse after a massive port explosion. French President Emmanuel Macron last month extracted [ More … ]
Known as a peacemaker, Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has died. Kuwait’s 91-year-old Emir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah died on Tuesday in a hospital in the United States. “With great sadness and [ More … ]
The Turkish president on Monday called on Armenia to immediately end the occupation of Azerbaijani territories, so the peace will reign in the region again. “The crisis in the region that started with the occupation [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it [ More … ]
The first coronavirus vaccine in the world has been registered in Russia, the country’s President Vladimir Putin announced today morning. The vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center, has an official registration with the [ More … ]
Dozens of people are feared dead and hundreds have been wounded in a massive explosion at the port in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. The exact cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Mohammed Fahmi, Lebanon’s [ More … ]
After just five months in office, Tunisia’s Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh has called it a day. His resignation came on the heels of a political scandal that has seen critics. Most notably the Ennahdha party accuse [ More … ]
Turkish president says there could be a ‘new era’ in the Libyan conflict following a phone call with his US counterpart. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said “some agreements” have been reached with his [ More … ]
Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said on Monday that the real numbers of infections in Egypt could be more than 100,000. During a presentation that showed modelled the spread [ More … ]
Egypt to deduct 1% of state employees’ income for one year amid coronavirus crisis. Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved on Wednesday a draft law cutting the net monthly income all of state employees by [ More … ]
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