Israel to receive US-made bombs and Hellfire missiles worth $7.4 bn despite past curbs under Biden administration
The State Department has signed off on the sale of $6.75 billion in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition...Geostrategy
UNFPA and corporate partners drive reproductive justice in workplaces
Mariarosa Cutillo, UNFPA Chief of the Private Sector and Civil Society Branch, says businesses need to provide adequate maternal health...Culture & Society Economy Geostrategy Global Health Social
Iran begins military drone drills to show ‘power’
Iranian army displayed its first division of ships and submarines capable of carrying armed drones in July when US President...The drills, according to Iran, will take place from the Gulf and the Sea of Oman in the south, to the eastern, western, northern and central parts of the country
The US and Israel have previously accused Tehran of using drones and missiles to attack US forces and Israel-linked ships in the Gulf
US says Iran eased demands for nuclear deal
The United States is expected shortly to respond to Iran through European Union mediators, after a year and a half...Biden has supported returning to the accord trashed by former president Donald Trump and Iran has pressed hard in negotiations in Vienna
The senior US official said Iran would again face "the most comprehensive inspections regime ever negotiated
Algeria detains ex-premier in crackdown on corruption
Noureddine Bedoui, the former prime minister of Algeria, has been detained on court orders, two days after another court had...Bedoui, who served as interior minister, was seen as an unwavering Bouteflika loyalist and was despised by the Hirak protest movement that toppled them both
After Bouteflika's fall, prosecutors launched graft investigations against people in his close circle, which led to several other top figures receiving hefty prison sentences
Kuwait central bank issues $792 bonds, tawarruq for three months
The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) has issued bonds and related Tawarruq worth Kuwaiti Dinar 240 million ($792 million) payable...The bank said in a statement that the new securities have a return rate of 2.625 percent.
Tawarruq is a financing arrangement where the buyer can obtain cash immediately through a series of sale transactions.
Eight more grain silos collapse at blast-ravaged Beirut port
A cloud of dust rose over the port after the collapse, which brought down the last of the northern block...The silos had absorbed much of the impact of the massive explosion of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate fertiliser that killed more than 200 people on August 4, 2020.
Only 12 of the original 48 silos are still standing, all of them in the southern block, said French civil engineer Emmanuel Durand, who has installed sensors on the silos.
Sadr supporters begin sit-in outside top Iraq judicial body
Several hundred supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched a sit-in outside Iraq's top judicial body on Tuesday, ratcheting up...On August 10, Sadr gave the Supreme Judicial Council one week to dissolve parliament to end the political deadlock
Last week, caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi convened crisis talks with party leaders, but they were boycotted by the Sadrists
Jordan king Abdullah meets Arab leaders in Egypt
The king was received by Egypt President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and a number of senior Egyptian officials on arrival...The king was received by Egypt President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and a number of senior Egyptian officials on arrival at El Alamein International Airport on Egypt’s north coast
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and visiting President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan underlined the importance of strengthening Arab unity
US expresses concern about violence on Syria-Turkey border
The recent bloodshed came against a backdrop of increased tensions pitting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against Turkish troops...On Friday, Kurdish authorities said that a pre-dawn strike by a Turkish drone hit "a training center for young girls" in the Shmouka, killing 4 children and wounding 11
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said artillery fire on a market by pro-regime forces killed 17 civilians including six children
Libya digs up ‘mass grave’ with seven bodies
Mass graves were initially discovered in Tarhuna in June 2020 following the withdrawal of forces of Khalifa Haftar, an eastern...A "mass grave" was discovered on Sunday in a "public waste dump" and seven bodies have been exhumed
More than 250 bodies have been found since 2020 in the farming town, which was controlled for years by the Kaniyat militia
Israel warns Hezbollah attack on gas field may spark war
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has warned Hezbollah that any attack on its gas assets could set off war, after...Gantz said extraction from the gas field would begin "when it is ready to produce," reaffirming Israel's claim to Karish
Israel and Lebanon last fought a devastating conflict in 2006 and remain officially at war, with United Nations peacekeepers patrolling the land border
