Pro-Kurdish MPs to meet Erdogan after Ocalan talks
Lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party were to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday for talks described by...
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Britain reestablishes full Syria ties as FM David Lammy visits Damascus
In 2011, Britain was among the first countries to acknowledge rebel groups as the official Syrian government after then-president Bashar...
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Qatar FM leaves for Moscow to talk Iran nuclear deal, Ukraine
Qatar's foreign minister headed for Moscow on Sunday for talks on Russia's obstruction of a new Iran nuclear deal and...
- Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani was to meet Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other top officials on Monday
- Qatar, a neighbor of Iran with close ties to Washington, has been stepping up efforts to encourage the United States and Iran to move towards a new deal
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Inside Germany’s secret Cold War cash bunker
During the Cold War, the German central bank stashed away almost 15 bn marks' worth of an emergency currency in...
- A closely guarded state secret, the currency was codenamed "BBK II" and intended for use if Germany was the target of an attack on its monetary system.
- After the Cold War, the bunker passed into the hands of a regional cooperative bank and then a real estate fund. In 2016, it was bought by German couple.
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Iran hits Israeli ‘strategic center’ in Iraq’s Arbil with missiles
Iran claimed responsibility for a missile strike Sunday on the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, saying it targeted an Israeli...
- There was no immediate reaction from Israel to Sunday's missile attack and Kurdish authorities insisted that the Jewish state has no sites in or anywhere near Arbil
- Kurdish authorities said the target of the attack was the Arbil consulate of the United States
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Palestinian National Authority urges EU to resume financial support
Palestinian National Authority has urged the European Union to overcome technical and other obstacles and resume financial support for the...
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki stressed the importance of financial aid in providing basic necessities to Palestinian people.
- European Union affirmed the importance of continuing joint cooperation between the European Union and Palestine.
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Jordan to receive $1.65bn in US aid in 2022
Jordan has seen several factors affect its economy, such as the conditions brought on by the Covid-19 and the Syrian...
- The US Congress has approved a new aid package for Jordan for 2022, estimated at $1.65 billion
- The aid is expected to support Jordan’s development and reform programs during 2022
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Ballistic missiles from outside target Arbil in Iraq
US interests and coalition troops in Iraq have regularly been targeted in rocket and armed drone attacks. They have never...
- Kurdistan Prime Minister and US state department have condemned the attack, which did not lead to any casualty
- A news channel channel has posted photos on social media showing its damaged offices, with a collapsed false ceiling and broken glass
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Rising food prices shake North Africa as Ukraine war rages
Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, along with several other Arab countries, import much of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.
- Tunisia imports almost half of the wheat used to make bread from Ukraine, and authorities say it has enough supplies to last three months
- Oil-rich Libya gets about 75 percent of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine, and Morocco too relies heavily on the same source for supplies
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Russia bears down on Ukraine as talks signal progress
As Russia continues to attack cities across Ukraine in general and Kyiv in particular, talks between the two countries are...
- Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Kyiv, described by a senior Ukrainian official as a ‘city under siege’, was reinforcing defenses and stockpiling food and medicine
- Buses were continuing to bring refugees into the city from the hard-hit suburbs, Klitschko said in a video message, adding: ‘We will not give up’
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Saudi Arabia executes 81 in a single day over terrorism
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it executed 81 people in one day on a variety of terrorism-related offenses, exceeding the total...
- All had been "found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes", the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported
- SPA said all those executed were tried in Saudi courts, with trials overseen by 13 judges over three separate stages for each individual
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Iran mocks US failure to stop exports of oil cargo
Iran said that US attempts to seize its tankers and oil cargo had failed to stop exports that are subject...
- The comments by Iran's oil minister, Jawad Owji, came after US court documents showed the United States had seized the cargo of two tankers accused of carrying Iranian crude
- The United States had previously issued a number of warrants to seize the cargo of tankers carrying Iranian oil to different countries
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Pro-Kurdish MPs to meet Erdogan after Ocalan talks
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Oil rises on fresh Middle East fears after attack on US base
"The news of three US troops being killed by a drone attack, and President Biden saying 'we shall respond', will...
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Dubai RTA awards US$95m contract to upgrade ticketing system
DUBAI, UAE - Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a contract to upgrade the existing nol (card-based ticketing...
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US, Egypt, Qatar and Israel officials in Paris talks for Gaza ceasefire
French authorities were also in touch with these four countries with the aim of negotiating a halt to hostilities between...
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Turkey earthquake survivors seek justice one year on
The disaster, which killed more than 50,000 people in all, was Turkey's deadliest in many centuries. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
- More than 200 contractors and developers were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the quake, some tried to flee abroad and were detained at Istanbul airports
- But lawyers representing victims' families fear that numerous contractors may escape blame because much of incriminating evidence disappeared when bulldozers cleared the debris
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Trump stokes opposition to Biden border plan
With immigration one of the hottest electoral issues in what increasingly looks like a Trump-Biden rematch for the White House,...
- Joe Biden threw his weight behind the proposed bill on Saturday
- Donald Trump has instead continued to castigate Biden over "open borders"
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Iran puts three satellites simultaneously into orbit
Western governments including the United States have repeatedly warned Iran against such launches, saying the same technology can be used...
- The Mahda satellite, which weighs around 32 kilograms and was developed by Iran's Space Agency, is designed to test advanced satellite subsystems
- The other two, Kayhan 2 and Hatef, weigh under 10 kilograms each and are aimed to test space-based positioning technology and narrowband communication