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  • Lebanese PM visits troops at border with Israel while Saudi Arabia evacuates families of diplomats

    Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Tuesday visited troops deployed near the border with Israel and U.N. peacekeepers, as Saudi Arabia evacuated the families of diplomatic staff because of ongoing clashes between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops. The Saudi move comes amid rising tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border, where Hezbollah members have been exchanging fire with Israeli troops daily for two weeks.

  • The Safer Oil Tanker: Diplomacy Averts Disaster

    The FSO Safer is an oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea as a floating storage vessel for Yemen’s inland oil fields around Marib.  Built in Japan and launched in 1976, the ship was purchased by the Yemeni state-run oil company in 1987 to provided services for Yemen’s energy sector. Parked a little more than 4 miles off the coast, it has the capacity to hold approximately 3 million barrels of oil.

  • Opinion: A New Diplomatic Path Is Urgent after Gaza, But Without the Previous Mistakes

    The horrors of the Hamas attack in southern Israel, and the devastating Israeli response, have only exposed the short-sighted hollowness of the Trump-Biden strategy, which has centered on ignoring the Palestinian dimension in favor of expanding the Abraham Accords, which the Biden administration has decided is the key to lasting regional peace. But Washington’s failure, of both imagination and policy, is not the only one here: Israel appears to have assumed that it could manage Hamas through an unstated modus vivendi, allowing the organization full sway in Gaza, with occasional reprisals for relatively small-scale attacks on Israel. “Shrinking the conflict” became the unspoken mantra of successive Israeli governments. That did not work either.

  • Dissed by Saudi Arabia, lectured by Egypt: U.S. diplomacy meets Mideast reality

    “Given the fact that we are at the very early stages of this situation, U.S. diplomacy is succeeding as much as anyone can expect it to succeed,” said Ghaith al-Omari, a former adviser to the Palestinian Authority. “But it is too early right now to talk about a major breakthrough.”

  • Middle East crisis tests limits of China’s diplomatic push

    A foreign ministry spokeswoman repeatedly stopped short of condemning Hamas, instead calling for de-escalation and for Israel and Palestine to pursue a "two-state solution" for an independent Palestine. China's leader Xi Jinping has been silent on the issue. "Certainly it does poke a hole in the type of propaganda ... of China being this kind of massive player in the Middle East," said Bill Figueroa, an assistant professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and an expert on China-Middle East relations.

  • Top Saudi diplomat condemns targeting of civilians in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday reiterated the Kingdom’s stance against the targeting of civilians during discussions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with his French counterpart.

  • Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks

    A direct Iranian role would take Tehran’s long-running conflict with Israel out of the shadows, raising the risk of broader conflict in the Middle East. Senior Israeli security officials have pledged to strike at Iran’s leadership if Tehran is found responsible for killing Israelis.

  • Russian investors occupy land plots to build ‘Little Moscow’ in Dubai

    The UAE has also become a key destination for Russian tourists and investors since President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

  • Saudi soccer team refuses to play in Iran over busts of slain general, in potential diplomatic row

    A Saudi soccer team refused to play a match in Iran on Monday because of the presence of busts of a slain Iranian general placed on the sidelines, Saudi state media reported. The Saudi Al Ittihad club was scheduled to play Iran’s Sepahan in the the Asian Champions League, one of several matches made possible by a recent diplomatic rapprochement between the longtime Mideast rivals that has recently come under strain.

  • Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate drops further to 4.9% in second quarter

    The unemployment rate for Saudi women again fell sharply to 15.7 per cent, from 19.3 per cent a year ago, while for men it fell marginally to 4.6 per cent, from 4.7 per cent a year earlier. Compared to the first quarter, the unemployment rate for women was down from 16.1 per cent, while it remained steady for men. The increasing participation of women in Saudi Arabia's workforce is expected to boost the country’s economy by $39 billion, or 3.5 per cent, by 2032, if the current rate of growth continues, S&P Global Ratings said last week.