Tag: Middle East
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Oil prices jump amid escalating tensions in Middle East
The West Texas Intermediate for January delivery increased 1.57 US dollars to settle at 58.58 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange
November 22, 2019 -
Protests break out in Egypt against Sisi regime over rising prices
Dozens of anti-government protesters joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square the epicentre of the 2011 revolution that toppled the country's long-time autocratic leader.
September 22, 2019 -
Drone attack on Saudi oil facility sets oil prices surging
The attack by Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, effectively shut down six percent of the global oil supply.
September 16, 2019 -
Iran trying to ‘blackmail’ world by violating nuclear Deal, says Israel PM Netanyahu
Israel is considered the leading military power in the Middle East and is widely believed to possess its sole if undeclared, nuclear arsenal.
July 3, 2019 -
US navy receives distress calls from 2 Ships in Gulf Of Oman
"We are aware of the reported attack on tankers in the Gulf of Oman," said a statement from the Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.
June 13, 2019 -
Netanyahu fails nation
The country’s executive and the legislature are now in suspended animation.
June 5, 2019 -
Abraaj Group founder released from UK prison after paying record 15m pound bail
Naqvi, the Pakistani man behind the world's largest private equity insolvency case, was arrested on April 10 at London's Heathrow Airport on behalf of the US authorities for defrauding US investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
May 29, 2019 -
US deploying missiles in Middle-East amid Iran tensions
USS Arlington, a warship with amphibious vehicles and aircraft on board, would join the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group in the Gulf.
May 11, 2019 -
Detente in Gaza
Over the three days of the conflict, there was a dramatic change in strategy on either side of the “line of control”, so to speak.
May 11, 2019 -
Middle-East’s two outlaw states
History has demonstrated time and again that demanding change through nonviolence is an effective path to reconciliation and brotherhood.
April 26, 2019 -
SpiceJet, Emirates sign an MoU for code share partnership
Code-sharing allows an airline to book its passengers on its partner carriers and provide seamless travel to destinations where it has no presence. The reciprocal partnership will allow opening of new routes and destinations for passengers of the two airlines.
April 22, 2019 -
Sharjah Light Festival: Shining bright Emirates
The Sharjah Light Festival is a spectacular sight with all its landmark buildings illuminated with colourful lights
April 1, 2019 -
Netanyahu in the dock
Netanyahu’s prospects are ever so uncertain with several key allies of the Prime Minister letting it be known that they will not support him if the attorney-general goes forward with the indictment which has already been resonant in the echo chambers of Moscow and Washington.
March 3, 2019 -
Holocaust and all that…
The diplomatic row between Poland and Israel has escalated since last Friday, when Netanyahu suggested Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
February 21, 2019 -
UK to send largest, most powerful aircraft carrier to Pacific on first operational mission
"The UK is a global power with truly global interest... We must be prepared to compete for our interests and our values far, far from home," UK Defence Minister Gavin Williamson said.
February 12, 2019 -
US troops pullout from Syria likely to begin in weeks, says Pentagon commander
The US-led multinational coalition has been engaged in an operation to drive out the Islamic State (IS) militants from their last stronghold in the eastern Euphrates region in eastern Syria.
February 11, 2019 -
Assad, not Syria, will be rehabilitated in 2019
The rehabilitation of Syria does not seem to be a realistic outcome for 2019. The rehabilitation of Bashar al-Assad looks rather more likely.
January 4, 2019