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The Iranian Armed Forces held a military parade on Wednesday to commemorate the Sacred Defense Week marking the beginning of their war with Iraq in 1980. The highlight of the event was the unveiling of Zolfaqar, a new long-range ballistic Read more
Secretary General of the Oil Producing Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammed Barkindo has hinted that the organization could hold an extraordinary meeting as early as November if OPEC and non-OPEC producers meeting on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum reach Read more
The UN Humanitarian aid agency has suspended its activities in Syria after a humanitarian and relief aid convoy was struck by warplanes on Monday night in the Urum al-Kubra area near rebel-held Aleppo. Dozens of people, most of them aid Read more
President Hadi in a presidential decree on Sunday sacked the board of the country’s central bank and appointed former finance minister Monasser Al-Quaiti as the new central bank governor. He also moved the bank headquarters from Sana’a to Aden; a Read more
The recent decision made by Jamaica to withdraw its recognition of the self-proclaimed SADR is undoubtedly a success for Morocco’s diplomacy which dealt another hard blow to the Algeria-backed separatists. Jamaica’s decision was announced by its Foreign Affairs Ministry in Read more
Saudi Arabia has, through its Ambassador to the UN Abdallah al-Mouallimi, addressed a letter to the UN Security Council complaining about Iran’s action in the Yemeni war. Riyadh accuses Tehran of supplying the Houthi Movement and its allies with weapons Read more
MP Fouad al-Saad, member of the Parliamentary Democratic Gathering bloc, has called on the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) bloc to forgo their planned street rallies on 28 September and 7 October to pressure political parties to respect the National Pact Read more
The Netherlands flagship airline KLM Wednesday announced it is suspending flights to the Egyptian capital Cairo as it faces difficulties to repatriate gains because of the currency policy imposed by Egyptian authorities. The decision comes after months of challenges to Read more
Israel launched a spy satellite named Ofek 11 on Tuesday afternoon from the Palmachim Air Force Base but the satellite has seemingly encountered some problems. Amnon Harari, the Defense Ministry’s Director of Aerospace, actually said there are concerns that its Read more
Russian authorities could impose a temporary ban on some Egyptian agricultural goods that fail to meet phytosanitary requirements, Russia’s food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor indicated on Tuesday. The Russian institution pointed at Egyptian authorities’ failure to comply with international and phytosanitary Read more