Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday held out the prospect of a visit in the future to Saudi Arabia, and said at least one more Arab country would normalise ties with Israel this year. “This (visit to Saudi Arabia) is on the table, there is no date yet,” he […]
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BEIJING -UNS: China’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks, state media Xinhua reported Tuesday. The separate phone calls between Foreign Minister Qin Gang and the Israeli and Palestinian top diplomats come amid recent moves by Beijing to position itself […]
TEHRAN -AFP/UNS: Iran said on Monday it has formally invited Saudi King Salman to visit Tehran, following a reconciliation agreement reached last month between the two sides. Saudi Arabia severed relations with Iran in 2016 after its embassy in Tehran and consulate in the northwestern city of Mashhad were attacked […]
BEJING -UNS/ Reuters: China and Brazil should deepen practical cooperation, and tap potential to work together in sectors including agriculture, energy, and infrastructure construction, Chinese President Xi Jinping was quoted as saying by state media on Friday. In a meeting with visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in […]
WASHINGTON-UNS: US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that investigators were closing in on the source of the leak of highly classified US intelligence documents, in what is believed to be the most serious security breach in a decade. The Department of Justice opened a formal criminal probe last week […]
RIYAH-UNS/AFP :An Iranian delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to pave the way for reopening diplomatic missions as the Gulf rivals prepare to normalise relations, seven years after an acrimonious split. The announcement came just days after a Saudi delegation made a similar visit to Tehran hot on the […]
Damascus – Reuters /UNS: Israeli jets hit Syrian military targets on Sunday in response to rockets launched towards Israeli-controlled territory overnight, Israel’s military said, as violence flared again following cross-border exchanges of fire during the week. State media in Syria reported explosions in the vicinity of the capital Damascus as […]
BEIJING -UNS: China’s foreign exchange reserves came in at $3.1839 trillion at the end of March, up 1.62 percent or $50.7 billion from a month earlier, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said. Affected by monetary policy and expectations for major economies, the dollar index fell and the prices of […]
BEIJING – UNS/Reuters: Seventy-one Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the speaker of the US House of Representatives. The three-day drills, announced the day after Tsai returned from […]
JERUSALEM -Reuters :Israel’s military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on Hamas, as tensions following police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem threatened to spiral out of control. Israeli authorities said two people were killed during a […]
