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Lebanon's top Public Prosecutor, on Wednesday, charged the judge investigating the 2020 Beirut Port explosion that killed at least 220 people, of stymieing his effort to hold members of the...
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Swedish and Finnish hopes of quickly joining NATO have run into an obstacle in the form of objections by Turkiye, which holds veto powers over accession to the military...
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Under pressure from Washington to stem the flow of dollars into Iran, Iraq's Prime Minister sent elite counter-terrorism forces more accustomed to battling Islamist militants to shut down dealers...
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A different type of energy transition has taken place at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. Unlike 2021's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, where oil and gas executives...
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In better times, Om Mohamed's family used to take holidays at resorts on Egypt's Red Sea coast. Now there is no money for vacations. Om Mohamed, 61, and her...
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European investigators are in Beirut quizzing witnesses as they probe suspected money laundering and embezzlement by Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, who denies any wrongdoing and still enjoys support...
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British-Iranian relations, which have been strained for decades, were back in the spotlight after Iranian authorities sentenced to death British-Iranian national, Alireza Akbari, for spying, charges he denies. Here...
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Israel's sharp tilt to what is likely to be the most hard-right government in its history puts its new Arab allies in the awkward position of having to deal...
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Turkiye's Maritime Authority said on Thursday it would continue to block the passage of oil tankers that do not carry appropriate insurance letters, adding that insurance checks on ships in...
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When Saudi Arabian Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, took his seat next to the FIFA President at the World Cup opener in Qatar, it capped a remarkable turnabout in...
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A decade ago, Tunisian fisherman, Ahmed Chelli's nets bulged with fish and octopus that he sold at the local market in the Kerkennah islands. Today, he pulls up only...
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Alaa AbdElfattah, an Egyptian-British software developer and blogger from an activist family who rose to prominence in the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak is now a symbol...
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Benjamin Netanyahu faces a new test forming a government with an ultra-nationalist party whose sudden rise has many at home and allies abroad alarmed at the potential implications for Israeli democracy.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's likely return to power will fuel concern about deepening tensions with Arab neighbours, but Gulf States which forged ties with Israel under his leadership will see him...
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Lebanon entered an unprecedented government crisis on Tuesday, with no president, a caretaker cabinet with limited powers and a deeply fragmented Parliament. The country is still struggling with a...
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On 1 November, Israel holds an unprecedented fifth election in less than four years, with former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vying for a comeback, Reuters reports. Caught in an...
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The Lebanese Presidency is set to fall vacant on 31 October, unless the main powerbrokers can strike a deal on the election of a successor to Michel Aoun, raising...
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Social media companies are unlikely to fully abide by Turkiye's new law requiring them to remove "disinformation" content and share user data with authorities, analysts say, raising the spectre...
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The Qatar World Cup was always going to be unique in several ways, but one aspect FIFA would not have welcomed is that fans the world over are opting not...
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Western actors and officials have cut their hair on camera to dramatise their support for Iranian women, whose protests have rocked the Islamic Republic since a 22-year-old woman died...
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Neither side is backing down in a battle of wills over oil, between Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and US President Joe Biden, putting a severe strain on their countries'...
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US legislation that could open members of oil producing group OPEC+ to antitrust lawsuits has emerged as a possible tool to tackle high fuel prices, after the body said...
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In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, Umm Zakaria Al-Sharaabi, prepares for a daily challenge – creating a meal out of virtually nothing to...
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Lebanon and Israel are closer than ever to signing a deal demarcating their maritime border, opening the door to new oil and gas exploration, after years of US-brokered negotiations....
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Raihana, 19, wanted to be a doctor, studying until midnight in recent weeks for Afghanistan's university entrance exam, a chance for women to advance their education even as they...
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School teacher, Claude Koteich, her teenage daughter and 10-year-old son should have all been back in class weeks ago – but a crisis in Lebanon's education sector has left...
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At downtown Khartoum's Al-Souq Al-Arabi, travel agencies helping young Sudanese seek a brighter economic future in Egypt are replacing once-packed hardware stores in a corner of the capital's main...
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Saudi Arabia has won a diplomatic victory by securing freedom for foreign fighters captured in Ukraine, signalling the value of the Crown Prince's alliance with Russia to Western partners...
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On the run from authorities after forcing a bank to release her family savings at gunpoint to treat her cancer-stricken sister, 28-year-old Lebanese interior designer, Sali Hafiz, insists she...
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Five months after Lebanon's draft IMF deal raised hopes it could finally pull together an economic reform plan to address its financial meltdown, political and financial elites are obstructing...
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Palestinian-American, Amer Zahr, is on a mission to heal through humour. In 2015, he started bringing fellow Arab-American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian...
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A series of rocket attacks on a gas field in northern Iraq has sent the US contractors working on its expansion packing, dealing a blow to the Kurdish region's...