According to a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of talks between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal were in their “closing stages.” The official said that there would be a “lot of activity in the coming week” towards reaching a long-sought deal, adding that an agreement was “not only possible, it’s essential and necessary.”
Mauritania secured a $2 billion financing pledge from the Arab Coordination Group (ACG) during the OPEC High-Level Forum in Vienna,
Israel has restarted limited natural gas exports from surplus supplies, the Energy Ministry said on Thursday, nearly a week after
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty talked with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff
Morocco and the U.S. have signed a new bilateral Container Security Initiative (CSI) arrangement in Rabat, aimed at enhancing
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