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Regional and related topics
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Bloomberg
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Dan Murtaugh |
11.15.2018
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The State Department’s zigzag on Iran sanctions, President Donald Trump’s tweets about OPEC supply, the demand-sapping trade war with China and the explosion of shale...
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Reuters
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Mohammed Ghobari and Aziz El Yaakoubi |
11.15.2018
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The Saudi-led coalition has ordered a halt in its offensive against Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen’s main port city Hodeidah, three sources said on Thursday,...
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CNBC
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Amanda Macias |
11.15.2018
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The $5.9 trillion figure reflects the cost across the U.S. federal government since the price of war is not borne by the Defense Department alone,...
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The boost in conventional oil output from the Middle East is primarily driven by supply additions from Iraq with 1.5 million bpd growth, and an...
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“Expanding our U.S. real estate footprint is a key pillar of our growth strategy,” said Atif Abdulmalik, Arcapita’s CEO, in a statement. “We have good...
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Bloomberg
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Christian Berthelsen and Andy Hoffman |
11.15.2018
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The dispute offers a rare glimpse into the opaque world of energy trading and the hazards of navigating deals in postwar Iraq, even for an...
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Roscosmos is holding talks with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on training their astronauts for a mission to the International Space Station...
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Haaretz
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Asaf Ronel |
11.15.2018
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Particle accelerators are at the forefront of research in a vast range of fields. From biology to archaeology to new materials, particle accelerators can help...
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Five decades of investments in education, impressive growth in enrollment rates, and gender parity at almost all levels of education, have not been able to...
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Newsweek
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Tom O'Connor |
11.15.2018
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The European Parliament warned that "member states have systematically failed to apply" EU rules when selling arms abroad, and called for "a mechanism to enforce...
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According to InfoWatch Analytical Center, local government agencies and educational institutions experienced 36 percent and 20 percent of all leaks, respectively which is twice as...
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When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the...
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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are returning to the battle against the Islamic State following a pause to deal with clashes between their northern troops...
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In a confidential quarterly report distributed to member states and reviewed by The Associated Press, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has been abiding...
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Reuters
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John Geddie |
11.14.2018
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The United States will step up enforcement of sanctions on Iran, national security adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday, as Tehran tries to find ways...
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Eastern Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar met on Tuesday morning with the prime minister of the internationally recognised government of western Libya, Fayez al-Sarraj, despite...
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IMF
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Anastasia Guscina and Boaz Nandwa |
11.14.2018
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Experience shows that, while the amount needed to achieve debt sustainability will differ, the way in which expenditures are cut or revenue increased matters for...
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The Guardian
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Oliver Holmes |
11.14.2018
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Israel’s hawkish defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has announced he is resigning from the rightwing coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu in protest at a Gaza...
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Reuters
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Alexander Cornwell |
11.14.2018
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Spotify, the world’s most popular paid music streaming service, officially launched in the Middle East and North Africa on Tuesday....
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Reuters
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Tulay Karadeniz and Tuvan Gumrukcu |
11.14.2018
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The U.S. Senate has demanded a block on sales of F-35 jets to Turkey unless U.S. President Donald Trump certifies that Turkey is not threatening...
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Reuters
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Ahmed Rasheed |
11.14.2018
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Iraq has agreed with Iran to exchange Iraqi food items for Iranian gas and energy supplies, two Iraqi government officials said on Wednesday....
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MarketWatch
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Rachel Koning Beals |
11.14.2018
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The IEA said oil output from the world’s three biggest producers is holding global supply steady, at around 100.7 million barrels a day last month....
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Bloomberg
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David Hellier and Mohammed Sergie |
11.14.2018
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The world’s biggest sports rights holder, BeIN Corp., says it will spend less to broadcast major competitions unless the industry does more to stop a...
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CNBC
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Holly Ellyat |
11.13.2018
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The Fund's latest regional economic outlook for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) region, published Tuesday, warns that "multiple and intertwined risks...
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Middle East Eye
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Ibrahim Al-Marashi |
11.13.2018
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The secret Sykes-Picot Treaty, sealed in May 1916, has been blamed for drawing up the "artificial" borders of the Middle East, Iraq in particular. Actually...
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But unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a poor country, with no history of a central government, no tradition of the rule of law, a very high...
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The party that poses the biggest threat to him is the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardline group turned political party that derives its power from...
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Brink
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John V. Mitchell |
11.13.2018
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Asia-Pacific’s oil deficits have overtaken the surplus from the Middle East (Figure 1), and the region’s consumption will keep growing, while the lack of resources...
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Bloomberg
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Ladane Nasseri and Filipe Pacheco |
11.13.2018
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Renewed curbs on buying Iranian oil are already rippling through the economy, which has previously survived a decade of sanctions that eased with the 2015...
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Washington Post
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Ruth Eglash, Loveday Morris and Hazem Balousha |
11.13.2018
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In the worst outbreak of violence since Israel and Hamas fought a 50-day war in the summer of 2014, Israeli military jets pounded targets in...
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