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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrested Wednesday several foreign diplomats including a Briton accused of spying in the Islamic republic, reports say. “The Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence service identified and arrested diplomats from foreign embassies who were spying in Iran,” Fars said, adding Read more
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh made Tuesday their first public meeting in five years in Algeria on the sidelines of the 60th anniversary of the independence of the North African country. The Algerian top leadership called Read more
State-run El Nasr for Export and Import (Gosoor) opened Monday six oversea branches in Ghana, Cameroon, Sudan, Emirates, France and China as part of the North African country’s efforts to boost its exports. The branches are part of 16 total Read more
Egypt has suspended activities at several Red Sea beaches after two women tourists were killed in two separate shark attacks last Friday. The first victim was a 68-year-old Austrian woman. She lost an arm and a leg due to a Read more
Qatar has provided the Lebanese army $60 million as part of the Gulf country’s pledge to support the struggling regional country. Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani according to Qatar News Agency, QNA, gave the directives of the gesture. The Read more
Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and visiting Egyptian leader Abdelfattah al-Sisi signed Wednesday a group of Memorandum of understanding (MoU) covering several areas including technology and investment. Al-Sisi travelled to the Gulf country to attend the inauguration of Read more
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Italy have signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a business council between the two countries. Saudi and Italian representatives from the private sector, reports say, discussed investment opportunities in the fields Read more
The United Arab Emirates, UAE, on Monday expressed its opposition to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s decision to appoint former Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum as UN envoy to Libya, Libya Observer reports, citing diplomatic sources. The Gulf country, the sources Read more
The Kuwait Interior ministry Tuesday announced the suspension of tourist and family visas until further notice in view of preparing a new mechanism with regulations to organize for visa procedures, reports say. “The move aims to prepare a new mechanism Read more
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) signed two agreements with Sierra Leone in the field of recruitment of public and domestic workers, reports say. The agreements aim to set a regulatory framework for all necessary procedures for Read more