Author: Steven Sahiounie

Algerian foreign minister Ahmed Attaf spoke over the phone on Saturday with Egypt’s newly appointed foreign minister Badr Abdelatty. The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that, during the call, ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries in all fields were discussed. They also spoke about regional and international issues of common interest, especially the Palestinian issue and ongoing Israel-Hamas war as well as the situation in Libya. Source: Arab News

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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, beating hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.Pezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran’s Shiite theocracy in his campaign and long has held Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the final arbiter of all matters of state in the country. But even Pezeshkian’s modest aims will be challenged by an Iranian government still largely held by hard-liners, the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, and Western…

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