Author: Steven Sahiounie

 In a telephone conversation, the Acting Foreign Minister of Iran and Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs discussed the latest security developments in the Gaza Strip and joint mediation efforts to end the war in the region. Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, in a telephone conversation with Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, emphasized the need to address the current tensions in the West Asian region and the need to establish stability and peace in this region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar in a statement announced on Thursday night that Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman…

British and French foreign ministers will travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to call for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and a de-escalation in any wider conflict in the Middle East, Britain said on Thursday.The visit by Britain’s David Lammy and France’s Stephane Sejourne comes as a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks was underway in Doha, an effort to end 10 months of fighting in the Palestinian enclave and bring 115 Israeli and foreign hostages home.The talks came as Iran appeared on the point of retaliating against Israel following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in…

Egypt is taking steps to revamp its higher education system to align it with the needs of the job market, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Ayman Ashour said on Wednesday.

Dubai Chambers has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bank of China – Dubai Branch – to develop collaboration and enhance cooperation between the business communities in Dubai and China.

Taxi and tuk-tuk drivers in Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon queued for hours for scarce petrol on Wednesday in the latest shortage fuelled by civil war and a tanking economy.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast an expansion of 0.6 percent, building on a rapid 0.7 percent recovery in the first quarter of the year from a shallow recession in the second half of 2023.

Dubai-based port operator DP World reported Thursday its half-year profits fell by nearly 60 percent, in part over the ongoing attacks by Yemen’s Houthis over the Israel-Hamas war that have affected shipping through the Red Sea.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Concacaf on Thursday announced a multiyear partnership aimed at promoting football across North and Central America and the Caribbean.

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On July 31, at 2:00 am. local time, Israel assassinated Palestinian leader, and the head of Hamas political office, Ismail Haniya in the Iranian capital of Tehran, hours after he attended the inauguration of the new President of Iran. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, vowed to reply to this Israeli aggression and that Israel would pay a price for crossing a red-line and killing a guest of Iran. The Middle East is going through turmoil and on the edge of a regional war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thrust the US into…

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a telephone call from his Cypriot counterpart on Wednesday, Saudi Press Agency reported. During the call, Prince Faisal and Constantinos Kombos discussed the crisis in the Gaza Strip and its security and humanitarian repercussions. Source: Arab news