Month: January 2021

Biden interferes in US-run Middle East Broadcasting Network (MBN)

Last week, Victoria Coates was fired from her job as head of the US State Department-funded Middle East Broadcasting Network (MBN) by the administration of US President Joe Biden, a role she had barely held two months. Coates’ firing brings the long-troubled network to its third president in just over three years. Former diplomat Alberto […]

Iran pushes parallel peace talks with Taliban leader

Iran has hosted the political leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban during the past week, offering Tehran’s own help as a mediator in peace talks between the insurgents and the Afghan government that have become stalled in Qatar. Shi’ite Muslim Iran has been a foe of the hardline Sunni Muslim Taliban for decades, but has been openly […]

Foreign forces defy Afghan peacedeal deadline, says NATO

International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the insurgent Taliban’s deal with the United States, four senior NATO officials said, a move that could escalate tensions with the Taliban demanding full withdrawal. “There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end,” one of the officials told Reuters. “Conditions […]

India blames Iran for mysterious, bloodless blast close to Israeli embassy

A day after a low-intensity blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, several sections of the Indian media on Saturday accused Iran of staging the attack in the capital. On Friday, a small bomb exploded nearly 50 meters from the Israeli Embassy — located in a high-security zone and not far from the prime […]

Biden lashes out at Turkish-Chinese geopolitical axis

A tough new line in Washington against the Erdogan regime in Turkey has raised alarm bells in Ankara, analysts have told Arab News. Turkey has embarked on a charm offensive toward the Western world, but US decision-makers are increasingly questioning the state of the “strategic partnership” between the traditional allies. In talks between Jake Sullivan, […]

Iran building revolutionary bridges with oil ally Venezuela

One seldom discussed byproduct of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, which ended with the fall of the Shah and the rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, is the diplomatic, economic and strategic collusion between Tehran and several Latin American regimes — right in Washington’s own backyard. Tehran has worked hard to consolidate these friendships since the […]

PM Diab condemns Tripoli protests, threatens mass arrests

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, broke his silence on Saturday to condemn days of violent protest in Tripoli, the country’s most impoverished city, as “an assault on the state and its integrity.” “Everyone who participated in the riots will be arrested,” Diab said. His comments followed deadly clashes during the week when protests at […]

Libyan transition government in works at UN

Participants at Libya’s U.N.-sponsored peace talks have approved a list of candidates seeking to lead a transitional government that will prepare the North African state for a national election at the end of 2021, the United Nations said. The transitional government will oversee preparations for the vote that aims to end a decade of chaos […]

Hend Sabry rewarded 'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' from France

Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri and Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy have been named this week Officer and Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, respectively. Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is awarded to artists who have contributed to flourishing the arts scene in France and around the world. The pair […]

Italy beholden to incitement to suicide TikTok videos

Italian police on Thursday accused a Sicilian woman of “inciting suicide” for an asphyxiation video she posted on TikTok, a week after a child accidentally died in a so-called blackout challenge. Police said the video, posted without restrictions on the social media platform by the 48-year-old Sicilian “influencer,” was “extremely dangerous” and able to be […]

FBI official implicated in forging evidence for Russian probe under Trump

A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation on Friday for altering an email the Justice Department relied on in its surveillance of an aide to President Donald Trump during the Russia investigation. Kevin Clinesmith apologized for doctoring the email about Carter Page’s relationship with the CIA, saying he was “truly ashamed” of an action […]

TRUMP is NOT WORRIED about the trial at all

Watch as Trump’s attorneys and Trump himself call Jerome Powell and Janet Yellen to the stand and ask THEM some questions ... and just like in a game of chess, check them into an ongoing, even educational Socratic debate which explains the hoardable Money system and exposes the whole central bank scheme and all the […]

Iran says no to inclusion of Saudi Arabia into nuclear deal

Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday rejected any new negotiations or changes to the participants of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, after French President Emmanuel Macron said any new talks should include Saudi Arabia. “The nuclear accord is a multilateral international agreement ratified by U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which is non-negotiable and parties to […]

Bomb blast in Afrin, Syrian Kurds blamed

At least five people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, the Turkish defence ministry and local civil defence said. The ministry said in a statement the bomb attack took place in an industrial site at the center of the town and wounded […]

Syrian Constitutional Committee in deadlock, UN envoy says

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria voiced deep frustration on Friday that the Syrian Constitutional Committee had failed to start drafting a new charter at its latest session after the government delegation rejected proposals. The committee, comprising representatives of Syria’s government, opposition and civil society, has a mandate to draw up a new constitution […]

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