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  • Five years on, Israelis see few benefits from major gas deal

    Five years after Israel signed a landmark agreement to develop large offshore gas fields over the objections of antitrust authorities, environmentalists and consumer advocates, ordinary Israelis have yet to see the windfall promised by the government. The deal has chiseled away at the monopoly held by Houston-based Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek Group, which discovered and developed the fields, bringing prices down. The country is on track to phase out coal and derive nearly all its electricity from cleaner-burning gas and solar power by 2025, and is exporting gas to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.

  • Lebanon names team for maritime border talks with Israel

    Lebanon announced on Monday the names of its delegation that will hold indirect talks later this week with Israel over the disputed maritime border between the two countries. The announcement by President Michel Aoun's office comes two weeks after Lebanon and Israel reached an agreement on a framework for the U.S.-mediated talks. The talks are scheduled to begin Wednesday at the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the southern Lebanese border town of Naqoura.

  • Abu Dhabi crown prince says he and Netanyahu discussed boosting UAE-Israeli ties

    Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan tweeted on on Monday that he had had a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss strengthening bilateral ties and the prospects for peace in the region.

  • A year on, Syria Kurds displaced by Turkey long for home

    The five-month-old baby girl of Wadha Sharmoukh has only lived in a tent because Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies captured her family's hometown in northern Syria from Kurdish forces a year ago. She was a born in a dusty camp crowded with Kurdish civilians who fled their towns and villages when Ankara's October 2019 offensive seized a 120-kilometre (70-mile) long strip of land on the Syrian side of its southern border.

  • Libya Restarts Oil Production at Biggest Field

    Production at Libya’s largest oil field restarted Sunday afternoon, Libyan officials said, a move that could quickly increase the country’s overall output after an extended shutdown and add to a glut of oil on world markets that has kept prices low. Libya’s central government and rebel commander Khalifa Haftar agreed last month to lift a nine-month oil blockade after the two sides resolved a dispute over oil revenue distribution. The country’s oil output has already increased to 300,000 barrels a day from about 100,000 barrels a day in the past two weeks.

  • Israel would oppose any U.S. F-35 sale to Qatar, Israeli minister says

    Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen made the comments in response to a Reuters report that Qatar - whose Iran links trouble Israel - had submitted a formal request to Washington to buy the Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N stealth jet.

  • Kataib Hezbollah Iran-backed militias offer ‘conditional’ cease-fire against U.S. in Iraq

    The militias have plagued U.S.-linked diplomatic and military targets for months, firing rockets at embassies and bases and targeting Iraqis who drive logistics convoys serving the U.S.-led coalition.

  • Saudi Arabia reaps rewards of gas-saving technology

    The report, which explores Saudi Arabia’s gas demand, domestic gas supply and natural gas trade in a global context, said the Kingdom follows Italy, France and Turkey of the G20 nations in flaring intensity rankings. The result means the Kingdom is one of the most successful countries worldwide in combating gas flaring pollution.

  • Saudi Arabia targets 100 million tourists, but only has 900 tour guides

    Saudi Arabia plans to increase the number of tour guides to 13,000 by 2030 to provide service to about 20 per cent of 100 million tourists, a senior official said. Sattam Al Balawi, chairman of the Saudi Tourism Guidance Association, said the number of guides about two years ago was about 600, and now the number has reached 900..

  • Kate Middleton repurposes jewellery given to Princess Diana by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia

    Her diamond and sapphire drop earrings were paired with a new, matching pendant necklace, which in turn complements her engagement ring. The set appears to be repurposed from one of Princess Diana’s most well-known collections of jewels, the Saudi Sapphire Suite.