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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called on the international community not to deal with any Israeli government that does not recognise the principles of international legitimacy....
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Belgium launched an investigation on Friday into possible corruption involving an unidentified Gulf State and at least one member of the European Parliament, the Federal Prosecutor said. The Prosecutor...
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China's President, Xi Jinping, said in Riyadh on Friday that China and Gulf nations should make full use of the Shanghai Petroleum and National Gas Exchange as a platform...
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December 8, 2022
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Arhama Siddiqa
In November, India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreed to resume talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) largely focusing on technology transfers, food security and energy security. The last round of trade negotiations were...
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Chinese President, Xi Jinping, on Thursday, said China will work with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) "to foster a new pattern of multi-faceted energy cooperation", Anadolu News Agency reports....
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December 7, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The problem with most Western media's political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that are of direct interest to Western governments....
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The Head of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, congratulated UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the occasion of the Arab Gulf...
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Trade and investment ties between China and Gulf Arab States are expected to feature prominently in President Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia this week, as the region increasingly looks East...
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A gleaming white World Cup stadium looms large at the end of the street in the quiet suburban neighbourhood of Al Thumama, Reuters reports. In three weeks, tens of...
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Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef Al-Hajraf, yesterday expressed his support for Qatar as it prepares to host the World Cup. The six-member Gulf bloc backs Doha...
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Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said today that the countries of the Arab Gulf region will benefit in terms of growth and revenues over the next six years. Al-Jadaan...
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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs has launched a diplomatic and political campaign, in coordination with the Arab ambassadors in Britain, to prevent the transfer of the...
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The Head of the Arab League has urged the British Foreign Secretary to "refrain from taking any legal action" to move the United Kingdom's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,...
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The Director-General of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, said on Tuesday that the economies of the Gulf States are expected to grow by 6.5 per cent this year....
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Arab Gulf states yesterday discussed the developments of the programme to achieve economic unity amongst them by 2025. This was during a meeting of the GCC Financial and Economic...
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Ambassadors of Arab countries in the United Kingdom wrote to Prime Minister Liz Truss to urge her not to move the British Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to...
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Speaker of the Saudi Shura Council, Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al-Sheikh, has called on Iran to cooperate and stop meddling in the domestic affairs of others and stop "exploiting" the...
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Member of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkiye (DEIK) and President of the Turkiye-Qatar Business Council Basar Arıoglu said the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) railway link project would...
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President of the European Council Charles Michel announced on Friday that the European Union (EU) should negotiate energy issues with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and...
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The UAE's Al-Roeya newspaper has sacked employees en masse following the publication of a story this summer in the paper's print edition over the rising fuel prices in the...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council called on Monday for the international community to intensify the "pressure" on the Houthi group in Yemen to engage in the peace process and resolve...
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Gulf Arab states have demanded that US streaming giant, Netflix, remove content deemed offensive to "Islamic and societal values" in the region, Saudi Arabia's media regulator said on Tuesday,...
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Ratings agency, Fitch, announced on Friday that Gulf Banks with Turkish subsidiaries reached net losses of roughly $950 million in the first half of 2022, Fitch rating reports. According...
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Infertility rates in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are rising and are more than twice the global average, according to research carried out by ART Fertility Clinics, which has...
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The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has signed an agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) to build and connect the regional electrical system to the southern...
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July 19, 2022
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Said Al-Haj
Turkish foreign policy during the era of the Justice and Development party witnessed several stages of change, primarily coinciding with, and influenced by, local and regional developments. However, the...
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The White House, on Monday, said it anticipates major oil producers in the OPEC+ alliance to increase crude production following President Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East, Reuters reports....
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The world has been gripped by the US Supreme Court's overturning of the constitutional right to abortion underpinned by Roe v. Wade
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US President Joe Biden has called on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers to increase their oil output to help stabilise prices, which have surged as a result of...
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Talks to boost trade by approximately $2 billion a year between members of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and the UK are underway today in Riyadh but...
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June 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...
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The US and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-led Terrorist Financing Targeting Centre (TFTC) yesterday designated 13 people and three entities on its terrorist financing list. The TFTC includes the US...