The agreement was signed in Tehran last Saturday by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Wang, who touched down in Tehran on Friday for a two-day visit as part [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince says oil firm Aramco and petrochemical firm SABIC will lead investments of five trillion riyals ($1.3 trillion) by the country’s private sector by 2030 under an economic diversification programme. The move, [ More … ]
Local authorities said the Ever Given was 80% corrected and planned to continue tugging efforts A giant container ship that has blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week has been refloated, raising hopes that [ More … ]
One of the largest cargo container ships in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The MV [ More … ]
The editor-in-chief of the pro-Egyptian regime newspaper, Al Watan, has put forward ten conditions that Turkey must meet before Cairo agrees to “resume talks” with Ankara. Writing on his Facebook page in 12 March Ahmed Elkhateeb [ More … ]
Sisi’s regime has decided to sell the bulk of government procured COVID-19 vaccines, rather than provide them for free. BY; MAGED MANDOUR The two-dose Astra Zeneca inoculation will be sold for 100-200 Egyptian pounds (EGP), though [ More … ]
Libya’s parliament has met in the front-line city of Sirte for a crucial vote on whether to endorse a new interim unity government meant to oversee long-delayed elections this year under an international peace plan. [ More … ]
The UAE’s drawdown from its Assab military base in Eritrea comes as the new Biden administration is re-evaluating America’s commitment to the War in Yemen. By: Andreas Krieg* However, as much as the UAE’s retreat from Yemen [ More … ]
For the first time since the formation of the Sudanese ruling military council, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El Sisi officially visiting Khartoum on Saturday 06 of March, Presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement on [ More … ]
Pope Francis has met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior leaders in Shia Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf to deliver a message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace [ More … ]
The small Gulf country reduces its role in Yemen, Libya to focus on economy, where its muscular foreign policy since Arab Spring exposed it to risks, according to a report published by Bloomberg The United [ More … ]
President Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled release of a US intelligence report detailing the disappearance and murder of prominent journalist Jamal [ More … ]
Israeli woman freed by Syria while Israel returned two shepherds to the Syria-controlled side of the Golan Heights. Syria released an Israeli woman after Israel returned two shepherds to the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan [ More … ]
President Joe Biden has said the United States will not lift sanctions on Iran before the country returns to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, the latest impasse in an ongoing standoff between the [ More … ]
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