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US envoy to the UN Tuesday expressed Washington’s full endorsement for the days of unrest saying that it would seek a UN emergency meeting on the crisis after calling the protests ‘demonstration for freedom’. Nikki Haley joined her boss Donald Read more
Palestinians has remained unconcerned following US President Donald Trump’s plans to cut off aid to Palestinians for their intransigence not to engage in talks with Israel under the US auspices. “We will not be blackmailed,” Hanan Ashrawi said in a Read more
Former finance minister and detainee at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton in the anti-corruption clean-up attended Tuesday a cabinet meeting in the presence of the King Salman and Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MbS), reports say. Ibrahim Assaf who also doubled as adviser Read more
Israel’s Culture and Sport minister riled in a letter the US National Basketball Association (NBA) after an official webpage of the association allegedly listed Palestine as “occupied territory” in list of world countries, reports say. Miri Regev in a letter Read more
Visa issuance between the United States and Turkey will resume at full swing after the US embassy Thursday said it received guarantee that no staffer at the mission will be targeted again by investigation. “Based on adherence to these assurances, Read more
President Emmanuel Macron of France has called Saudi Arabia to ‘entirely’ lift the air and sea blockade its coalition has imposed on Yemen and which has worsened the humanitarian situation in the country devastated by more than two years of Read more
The United Arab Emirates top Foreign Minister Wednesday called for Arab union against Turkey pointing out that the Tayyip Erdogan-led country would not lead the Arab world. A spat has broken since last week between the UAE and Turkey with Read more
Head of the Palestinian Hamas movement Tuesday stressed that the US is working on a peace plan proposing to Palestinian leaders the village of Abu Dis, close to Eastern Jerusalem, as the future capital of Palestine. Ismail Haniyeh revealed the Read more
British Laura Plummer received Tuesday a three-year jail sentence for smuggling into Egypt Tramadol tablets, which are banned in the North African country. The 33-year old was arrested in October upon landing at Hurghada, a Red Sea resort city. Authorities Read more
A court has sentenced blogger Abdullah al-Saleh to five years in prison in absentia for criticizing Saudi Arabia in the diplomatic showdown between the kingdom, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain plus Egypt on one side and Qatar on the other. Read more