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French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Thursday for a working dinner and talks at the Elysée Palace. The meeting comes as Western nations seek to diversify their oil supplies amid the war in Ukraine and revive a nuclear deal with Iran. Macron has indicated that he […]
Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and French President Emanuel Macron are each visiting several African countries […]
The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, has dismissed claims that Moscow caused the global food crisis nations are experiencing right now. He said this during a speech to Arab League ambassadors in Cairo, he said Western nations were distorting the truth about the impact of sanctions on global food security. Lavrov accused […]
Saudi Arabia’s National Center of Meteorology, NCM, on Thursday discussed the launch of a second phase of the cloud seeding operation programme in the south-western regions of Saudi Arabia. The second phase will cover the Asir, Al Baha, and Taif regions. The minister of environment, water, and agriculture and chairman of NCM’s board […]
The Whitehouse has said the President of the United States, Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday after the 79-year-old leader was experiencing mild symptoms. The administration said he would carry out his full duties while isolated. Though Biden has been fully vaccinated, the Whitehouse said he has begun taking Pfizer anti […]
Protesters in Sri Lanka defied tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency to storm the prime minister’s office on Wednesday after the country’s embattled president fled overseas, with the crowd demanding both men step down in the face of an economic crisis. In a televised statement Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said […]
An FBI alleged fugitive who was accused of rape and faking his death has told a court there is ‘mass hysteria’ around his case. The Metro UK reports that the US prosecutors want the courts in Scotland to extradite the man they say is Nicholas Rossi, who is wanted for the alleged rape […]
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister’s office said. “Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s spokesman Dinouk Colombage told […]
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two prominent and powerful football figures, have been acquitted of fraud in a Swiss court. The case is centered on a £1.6 million payment made by Blatter to Platini in 2011. Blatter, a former FIFA president, and Platini, his vice, were both found not guilty of fraud at […]
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was in grave condition on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man with what appeared to be a homemade gun opened fire. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the shooting in the western city of Nara in the […]
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