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Month: December 2019

TurkStream pipeline slotted for January, announce Erdogan, Putin

3 years ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to travel to Turkey for talks with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Jan. 8 where he will open the TurkStream natural gas pipeline, the Kremlin said on Monday. The two leaders will also be able to discuss other issues at talks which are likely to be held in the […]
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Lebanese energy tender delayed

3 years ago
Lebanon’s caretaker Energy Minister Nada Boustani delayed a fuel tender by one week on Monday to allow for more competition and better prices after receiving offers from two companies. The ministry is trialing a state tender for 150,000 tonnes of 95 octane gasoline in an effort to stave off supply shortages during Lebanon’s worst economic […]
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Turkey GDP growth regains momentum

3 years ago
Turkey's economy grew 0.9% year-on-year tmsnrt.rs/2P6vV18 in the third quarter, breaking three consecutive quarters of contraction as it shook off a recession which followed last year's currency crisis. Turkey has a track record of 5% growth, but a 30% slide in the lira last year pushed up inflation and interest rates, while domestic demand tumbled. […]
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Saudi Aramco garners orders worth $38.4 billion

3 years ago
Saudi Aramco has received orders worth 144.1 billion riyals ($38.4 billion) for the institutional tranche of its planned initial public offering (IPO), its financial advisers said in a joint statement on Monday. The institutional bookbuilding began on Nov. 17 and investors have until Dec. 4 to place orders. Aramco plans to sell 1.5% of its […]
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TO THE MEDIA EVENT from Angel and The Beast

3 years ago
By Russell Morris   We are sitting at a small round table in the center of the main floor in The Great Library at The Palace of The Beast. Here we are surrounded by all of the most important knowledge known to humankind, plus some more. “There”, The Beast points three stories up, to the […]
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Turkey preparing for second S-400 purchase

3 years ago
Turkey’s presidential administration has said that the purchase date for more S-400 missile systems from Russia is just a technicality and that it thinks a deal will happen before too long, the RIA news agency reported on Monday. Moscow hopes to seal a deal to supply Turkey with more S-400 missile systems in the first […]
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Trump in talks with Netanyahu over Iran

3 years ago
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran and other issues, the White House said in a brief statement. “The leaders discussed the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues,” the White House said in an email statement. Relations between Iran and the […]
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Corbyn wants to end arms sales to Saudi

3 years ago
Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday he would stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen if he wins an election this month. “Labour will stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen and work to end the war there, not actively support it as the Conservative government […]
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Iraqi PM's resignation okayed by parliament

3 years ago
Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, following weeks of violent anti-government protests that have rocked the country. Abdul Mahdi’s decision to quit on Friday came after a call by Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for parliament to consider withdrawing its support for […]
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Gross theft of Lebanon's meager petroleum resources

3 years ago
The Lebanese petroleum expert Nicolas Sarkis recently uploaded a video on his Youtube channel exposing the outrageous corruption nested in the petroleum domain in Lebanon. He says that he had never seen, in any other country in his 40 or so years of work in petroleum, the amount of corruption that he saw first-hand in Lebanon. The […]
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Unions launch pro-government ralleys in Algeria

3 years ago
Government supporters took to the streets in Algeria on Saturday to show solidarity ahead of next month’s elections that are opposed by a long-running mass protest movement. The marches, organized by the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), attracted over 10,000 people across several cities. They are the biggest public show of strength so far […]
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In latest atrocity, Israeli shoot dead West Bank Palestinian

3 years ago
Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank opened fire at a Palestinian who threw a fire-bomb at a car on Saturday, the Israeli military said, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said the man was killed. The military said the troops were carrying out operations in the area to prevent militant attacks when they saw three […]
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Tunis protests erupt following man who burned himself

3 years ago
Tunisian police used tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters who blocked roads in the southern town of Jelma on Saturday following the death of a young man who burned himself to death, witnesses said. Abdelwahed Hablani, 25, set himself on fire and died in hospital on Friday in protest at poverty and poor living […]
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Dissatisfied Iraqi protestors set fire to Najaf shrine entrance

3 years ago
Iraqi protesters set fire to the entrance of a shrine in the southern holy city of Najaf on Saturday and security forces fired tear gas to disperse them, police and a demonstrator at the scene said, risking more bloodshed after a rare day of calm. The demonstrator sent a video to Reuters of a doorway […]
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