Author: Steven Sahiounie

World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiators failed to break a deadlock on major reforms in the early hours of Saturday despite talks extending deep into overtime in Abu Dhabi, in what some delegates said was a triumph of national interest over collective responsibility.

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has reviewed the UAE Government’s financial achievements and initiatives for the year 2023. The outcome included 151 Cabinet decisions related to the financial sector, covering the launch of new policies and initiatives, legislations and laws, as well as the approval of international agreements.

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The Iranian president has called on mosques in Muslim states to enlighten people about the situation of the oppressed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who are subjected to the genocidal Israeli war. Ebrahim Raeisi made the remarks in a meeting with Mohamed Mamoun el-Kacimi el-Hassani, the Imam of the Grand Mosque of Algiers, in the Algerian capital on Saturday. “Today, raising awareness about the oppressed Palestinian Muslims in Gaza is not the main issue of the Muslim world but rather the mankind and it should be at the center of activities made by the mosques in Islamic territories,” he said.…

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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) carried its 159th ministerial session in Riyadh on Sunday, while separate meetings were held involving the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Morocco. Joint ministerial meeting held on the sidelines between the GCC and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that what is happening in Gaza is a systematic plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause. Adding that “Security solutions to the conflict have brought nothing but destruction to the region, and the escalation in Gaza extended to the Red…

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The French Foreign Minister has conducted a thorough interview detailing his country’s stance on the Israeli war on Gaza. The humanitarian situation in Gaza is creating indefensible and unjustifiable situations for which the Israelis are accountable, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne stated on Saturday. French newspaper Le Monde conducted an interview with Sejourne, who answered key questions on the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the war in Ukraine. Sejourne stressed that “France must be on the right side of history” when it comes to the war in Ukraine and called for an “urgent” and “lasting” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The…

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The Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs Authority in the Yemeni government in Sanaa rejected claims made by the United States and Britain regarding the cutting of undersea cables in the Red Sea and condemned the act of sabotage, describing it as “criminal”. Israeli newspaper Globes reported earlier that at least four underwater communication cables were damaged in the sea between Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in East Africa, accusing the Yemeni Armed Forces of allegedly being behind the operation. The Yemeni government in Sanaa affirmed on Saturday that the US-UK aggressions against the country have caused a disruption in the undersea cables, jeopardizing the…

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