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What is behind UAE's bold normalization campaigns with its former opponent
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 6 (ANI): In the last 18 months or so the United Arab Emirates has taken bold steps and changed its foreign policy towards countries with which it used to have bad, almost hostile, relations and, what is more, it now seeks to become one of the most important play
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Defying strong criticism from the US and EU, Israel plans to build 3130 ho
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 1 (ANI): On October 27 the Israeli government announced plans to build 3,130 homes for Jewish settlers deep inside the occupied West Bank, defying the strongest criticism to date of such projects from the administration of US President Joe Biden as well as from
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Will Mikati's government stop Lebanon's economic and political paralysis?
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], September 27 (ANI): Last Monday, Lebanese billionaire Najib Mikati, succeeded in winning in parliament a vote of confidence for his 24-member government.
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Water crisis could lead to conflicts in the Middle East
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], 14 September (ANI): The Middle East is warming at twice the global average and this summer several countries like Kuwait, Oman, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia recorded temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius(122 Fahrenheit), as forests burn, and severe
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What are possible implications of US withdrawal from Afghanistan for Middl
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 23 (ANI): The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, followed in a matter of days by the collapse of the government in Kabul, brought memories of the humiliating US prestige fall of Saigon in 1975 and send shock waves all over the world.
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Is the newly inaugurated Iranian President Raisi going to follow more hard
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 9 (ANI): With pomp and ceremony,ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in last Thursday in Tehran as Iran's eighth President, in the presence of more than 100 representatives of various countries and organizations. Raisi, a protege of Iran's Supreme Lea
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Pressure is increasing on Israel to explain its relationship with Pegasus
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 2 (ANI): Diplomatic pressure is increasing on the state of Israel to give convincing explanations on the nature of its relationship with the NSO Pegasus spyware system, following the revelations of an international investigative report by a team of 80 journalists
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Turkey rejects its inclusion in US list of countries implicated in use of
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 5 (ANI): The Turkish Foreign Ministry last Friday reacted angrily to its inclusion in a US report in the list of countries that are implicated for the use of child soldiers by Turkish-backed groups in Syria and Libya.
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Turkish mafia boss revelations rattle Erdogan's government and top officia
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 29 (ANI): In a series of seven You Tube videos released so far, and watched by more than 57 million people, notorious Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker made bombshell revelations with his claims that the Turkish government and politicians are in cahoots with the crimin
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Egyptian President el-Sissi issues stern warning over Grand Ethiopian Rena
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia (Cyprus) April 5 (ANI): Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi last Tuesday issued a stern warning to Ethiopia that Egypt's share of the waters of the Nile is "untouchable" and added ominously that "if the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is filled and operated without a l
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Israel faces a deadlock after the 4th election in two years
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 29 (ANI): Israel’s 4th election in two years failed once again to produce a clear winner, as the pro-Netanyahu group has the declared support of 52 members of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), while his opponents have 57 Knesset Members (KM). To form a go
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Clock is ticking for Biden if he wants to salvage the nuclear deal with Ir
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 1 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has stressed many times that the US will return to the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with Iran -officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - provided that Iran complies with the terms of the deal.
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