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Gina Haspel, the Director of CIA will brief this Tuesday leaders of the Senate about the death of Saudi journalist and The Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in a closed session after the White House last week barred her agency Read more
A United Nations chartered aircraft has transported some fifty badly injured Yemenis from the capital Sana’a to hospitals in Muscat, the capital of Oman, for treatment, the UN envoy for the war-torn country has announced. In a tweet posted on Read more
King Mohammed VI has called on the international community and advanced countries to take concrete actions and voluntary measures in favor of developing countries to enable them to tackle the issue of climate change through technology transfer and providing them Read more
Qatar will pull out from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in January 2019, the tiny Gulf’s minister of energy has announced. “Qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019,” Saad al-Kaabi said Monday at Read more
France’s leading groups, CMA CGM, EDF Renewables, FIVES and SUEZ have announced plans to pump investment in the Oman’s Duqm Special Economic Zone, in many sectors including cement, renewable energy and alternative fuel. The four groups will form a French Read more
Conditions in Yemen have deteriorated alarmingly, and the country is on the “brink of a major catastrophe” said Mark Lowcock – Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator – on returning from his mission to Yemen on Saturday. “But Read more
Roberto Cavalli Group, one of Italy’s major fashion houses, has signed a deal to begin business in Bahrain. Roberto Cavalli will deploy its know-how in luxury interior decoration in the little kingdom where it has been assigned to furnish 247 Read more
The UAE passport has become this month the world’s most powerful passport after it ranked 27th in December 2016. The Emirati passport leapfrogged to the top of the global Passport Index ranking, the Emirati passport holders being able to travel Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Chairman of Al Quds Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has renewed his firm commitment to continue defending Al Quds and the Palestinian cause, which are at the core of the Middle East Read more
US carmaker Ford Motor Company and German automotive Volkswagen (VW) are discussing partnership plans that could lead to the production of some models of the German commercial vehicles in the American firm’s plant in Turkey. “Ford and VW have been Read more