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Almost 55million eligible Iranian voters are heading to the polls on Friday to elect 290 members of parliament and 88 clerics to the Assembly of Experts for 4 and 8year terms respectively. The election is deemed crucial because it is Read more
US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the White House has a “plan B” if the ceasefire expected to begin on Saturday in Syria fails. An agreement was reached between the US and Russia Read more
US Secretary of Statemet the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan on Sunday to discuss the tensions in the West bank and Jerusalem that has led to the death of around 28 Israelis and 176 Palestinians since October 1. Before Read more
President Erdogan reiterated his Prime Minister’s claim that the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) carried out the Wednesday bombing in the capital which killed 28 people, most of them military personnel, and injured more than 60. The Kurdistan Workers Read more
Iran has stated that it supports the agreement reached between Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela in Doha to freeze oil output at January 11 levels without making any commitment whether it would abide by it. After meeting with his Read more
A source at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has ruled out plans to devalue the country’s currency as the state continues to struggle with meeting the demands of businessmen through tri-weekly US dollar auctions while balancing foreign reserves. Investment Read more
Morocco is taking part in the North Thunder joint military drills started on Monday in Hafer al-Batin in northeastern Saudi Arabia, along some 20 Arab and Islamic countries, notably Egypt, Jordan, Gulf Cooperation Council Members, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sudan, and Yemen. Read more
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, is expected on Wednesday in Paris for a working and friendship visit in France, it was officially announced in Rabat Monday. The visit will start by a meeting at the Elysée with French President Read more
The Bahraini parliament is unhappy with the European Parliament (EP) after the latter questioned the credibility and independence of a judgment passed by one of the kingdom’s courts. A resolution passed by the EP last week rejected a court ruling Read more
Outspoken Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday addressed a sharp message to the European Union over the refugee crisis as Turkey continues to threaten that it would ease their passage to Europe because the country has reached its accommodation limit Read more