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September 14, 2020

IAEA in wide-ranging talks with Saudi Arabia on tougher nuclear checks

The UN nuclear watchdog is in wide-ranging talks with Saudi Arabia about tougher supervision of the kingdom’s nuclear activities, the agency said on Monday, part of a wider effort...

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September 14, 2020

Turkish, Russian officials to meet in Ankara for talks on Syria, Libya

Turkish and Russian officials will meet in Ankara this week for a new round of talks on developments in Syria and Libya, where the two countries back opposing sides,...

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September 14, 2020

Israel, Bahrain defence ministers discuss ‘close partnership’

Bahrain’s Defence Affairs Minister, Lieutenant-General Abdulla Bin Hassan Al-Nuaimi, on Monday discussed “close partnership” with Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported. “They discussed the importance of...

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September 14, 2020

UAE announces emergency approval for use of COVID-19 vaccine

The United Arab Emirates on Monday granted emergency approval for use of a coronavirus vaccine, six weeks after human trials in the Gulf Arab state started. A phase III...

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September 14, 2020

Pompeo says Trump administration eager for end to Gulf rift

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed on Monday for a solution to the three-year rift between the Gulf state of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

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September 14, 2020

There are dangerous repercussions for Yemen from UAE-Israel normalisation

Gulf normalisation with Israel is picking up pace due to the tremendous electoral pressure imposed by US President Donald Trump on the states which are existentially linked to America...

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September 14, 2020

The League of Shame, part 1

I did not expect a courageous response from the so-called Arab league regarding the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement, because the dead cannot talk, and the Arab League is basically dead...

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September 14, 2020

Israel arms manufacturer targeted by Palestine activists in UK

Palestine Action activists, a direct action group opposed to Israel’s brutal occupation, are occupying an Israeli arms company factory in the northwestern UK village of Shenstone. Activists covered the...
September 14, 2020

Britain to invest $30m in Oman’s strategic Duqm port

Britain announced on Friday that it will invest £23.8 million ($30 million) to expand the size of its base in the strategic Omani port of Duqm, located in the...

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September 14, 2020

Netanyahu ‘fabricated’ video to influence US policy on Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a crudely doctored video clip of Mahmoud Abbas, showing the Palestinian president making inflammatory remarks, to sway US President Donald Trump’s policy on...

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