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In the House of Commons this past Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made two announcements pertaining to Saudi Arabia that sounded like they came straight out of the ninth century. The first was that thanks to British diplomacy, Hammond did “not expect” that a […]

Russia furious at Turkish move to set up rebel “safe zone” inside Syria to assist Jihadi rebels there, putting the recently announced “normalisation of relations” between Russia and Turkey in jeopardy. In the immediate aftermath of the Turkish capture of Jarablus in Syria Turkish President […]

Change and Reform bloc MP Alain Aoun said on Tuesday that the bloc’s ministers will challenge all decrees issued during last Thursday’s Cabinet session. Aoun’s comments were made following the bloc’s weekly meeting in Rabieh whereby he noted that the top priority during next dialogue […]

NNA – Minister of Agriculture, Akram Shehayyeb, met on Tuesday with MP Ibrahim Kanaan, to follow up on recent developments relevant to the trash crisis, in light of a fresh meeting for the Finance and Budget House committee. A statement by Shehayyeb’s press office indicated […]

BEIRUT: French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday criticized Turkey’s “contradictory” military intervention in Syria and warned Russia not to become a “protagonist” in the war, a day after a U.S. official warned that clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish forces would detract from the fight […]

Hillary Clinton is studying Donald Trump’s insecurities as if they were white papers fresh from Brookings, the New York Times reports. The Democratic nominee knows that voters won’t grade this fall’s debates on the precision of each candidate’s policy knowledge. She knows she can’t come […]

A group of 60 congressmen have signed a letter seeking to delay the arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Foreign Policy reported on Monday. The US magazine said the move signals that the “frustration is growing in Congress over Saudi Arabia.”Saudi strike in Yemen “A bipartisan […]

Up to 30 percent of the 1.1 million asylum seekers who arrived in Germany in 2015 may be working illegally, German broadcaster NDR said, citing experts. It added that refugee shelter employees often help migrants find illegal jobs in return for kickbacks. NDR admitted that […]