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October 5, 2021

Israel ready for maritime delineation talks, but not on Lebanon’s terms

Israel is ready to renew efforts to solve its dispute with Lebanon over the delineation of their territorial waters in the Mediterranean, but it will not accept that Beirut...

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October 5, 2021

Egypt finalising plans to send gas to Lebanon

Egypt is finalising arrangements to start supplying gas to Lebanon soon under a plan to help ease Lebanon’s power crisis, the two countries’ energy ministers said after meeting today, Reuters reported....

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October 5, 2021

Israel: right-wing interior minister makes first official visit to UAE

Israel’s right-wing Minister of the Interior has travelled to the UAE for her first official visit to the Emirates. Ayelet Shaked met with her counterpart and Deputy Prime Minister,...

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October 5, 2021

Mossad abducted general from Syria to interrogate for location of Ron Arad, report says

Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, abducted an army general from Syria last month in an operation to locate a missing Israeli Air Force navigator, a report has claimed. According to...

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October 5, 2021

Yemen: UAE-backed separatists abduct scores of bank guards

Militiamen affiliated with the UAE-backed separatist group the Southern Transitional Council (STC) have kidnapped around 60 guards at the Central Bank in Aden, local sources have reported. The sources...

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October 5, 2021

Knesset’s winter session began with an acrimonious exchange between Netanyahu and Bennett

Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, and former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, were involved in a heated debate and bitter exchange of blame over major issues during the start of...

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October 5, 2021

Will Iraq’s election expose US-Saudi endorsement of Sadr’s drive to impose a prime minister?

Despite US President Joe Biden’s scathing criticism of his predecessor’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has not shied away from implementing them. In Afghanistan, he stuck to Trump’s...

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October 5, 2021

France’s Macron calls for calm with Algeria

French President Emmanuel Macron today called on Algeria to calm down and resume diplomatic cooperation with Paris. Macron said in statements that he hoped the diplomatic tension with Algeria...

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October 5, 2021

Egypt denies claims political detainees seek to reconcile with the state

An Egyptian security source denied the existence and circulation of a letter calling for reconciliation between political detainees and the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The source, whose...

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October 5, 2021

Firm led by UK Tory donor fined $90m for paying bribes to land large Middle East contracts

A firm headed by Tory Party donor, Ayman Asfari, handed out—or offered—bribe money to obtain contracts in Iraq, Saudi and the UAE between 2011-2017. The corruption charge, which was...

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