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Khashoggi Case Erodes Saudi Reputation … ‘Israel’, UAE, Other Saudi Allies Worry: NYT

As Saudi Arabia struggles to rebut accusations that Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was complicit in the grisly killing of a Saudi dissident, ‘Israel’, the United Arab Emirates and the prince’s other allies across the region are starting to worry that damage to him could upend their own plans and ...

October 23, 2018

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UAE Secretly Hosts its Lebanese “Allies”: Back to Syria

For three consecutive days, United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs hosted Taimur Jumblatt, Sami Gemayel and Melhem Al-Riyashi in his country. Abu Dhabi intended to give its visitors (some maintained the secrecy of the visit or, in other words, were “dishonest” about its objective) the impression that ...

October 18, 2018

Middle East

The Washington Post on Khashoggi Case: This Could Be Moment Saudi Loses US

As the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared at his country’s consulate in Istanbul amid almost confirmed reports that he was murdered, dismembered, removed in boxes, and flown out of Turkey, the US media highlighted the negative effects of the incident on the ties between Riyadh and Washington. Knowing that Khashoggi ...

October 8, 2018

World

Working Americans Are Worse off under Trump: So Many Who Have Jobs Aren’t Clapping

Despite robust economic numbers during the Trump presidency, the American public has seemed curiously unmoved by such good news as the lowest U.S. unemployment level in nearly half a century, according to an article published by The Washington Post. “Its enthusiasm might have been dampened by this underappreciated economic reality: ...

October 1, 2018

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Bolton on EU Plan to Sidestep Iran Sanctions: US Will Be Aggressive

White House national security adviser John Bolton dismissed an EU plan for a special payments plan to circumvent US sanctions against Iranian oil sales and pressed the SWIFT global payments messaging system to rethink dealing with Tehran. Speaking at a conference, Bolton also said the United States would be “aggressive ...

September 26, 2018

Lebanon

When It Comes to Saudi, Lebanon Can Never Commit to “Dissociation Policy”!

Just Few days after the diplomatic spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada over Riyadh’s detention of human rights activists, Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri rushed to voice “solidarity’ with the Gulf Kingdom. A more obvious double standard code exists in Hariri’s policy towards Saudi Arabia, which abducted the Lebanese PM-designate ...

August 12, 2018

World

US, Rest of G7 States Must Support Canada in Face of Saudi Autocrats: The Washington Post

The Washington Post tackled on Wednesday the diplomatic row between Canada and Saudi resulting from the former’s complaint about the latter’s decision to arrest two prominent female activists, Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, citing the statement made by KSA foreign ministry which described that the Canadian move as a “blatant ...

August 8, 2018

World

The Independent: Donald Trump is Cozying up to Vladimir Putin while Cutting off Europe – We Should Be Scared

After the meeting between the US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki, the Western media highlighted the new American foreign policy which has been unfolding over the last month with Russia. The British Newspaper The Independent said that the most important and ...

July 17, 2018

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Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan Agree anti-ISIL Bid: Report

Senior intelligence officials from Iran, Russia, China, and Pakistan have reportedly reached an agreement to join efforts against Daesh terror group in Afghanistan. The officials agreed over integrated efforts for rooting out the outfit from Afghanistan during a meeting in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, English-language Pakistani daily The Nation ...

July 14, 2018

Lebanon

Russian Envoy: “Deal of Century” a Matter of Surrender to ‘Israel’, Not Peace

Russian Envoy to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, stressed that the so-called “deal of century” with the Zionist entity is a matter of surrender, not peace with the occupation regime. In an interview with Lebanese daily, Al-Akhbar, the Russian diplomat said that Tel Aviv bets on the Arabic obedience. “The deal of ...

June 22, 2018