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Turkey tops Libya’s imports in 2025
The Libya Observer
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Turkey has emerged as the leading source of goods and services imported into Libya so far this year, followed by China, Egypt, India and Russia. Figures released by the Central Bank of Libya show that banks used $15.3bn in foreign currency between...
Turkish expert: Zangezur corridor will allow Azerbaijan to unlock its potential
Azertag
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August 16, 2025
Ankara, August 16, AZERTAC The agreements reached at the August 8 meeting in Washington between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the United States strengthen Baku’s position, including in regional trade, and also reinforce the alliance...
Iranian President Is Coming To Belarus
Charter 97
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3 Masoud Pezeshkian The visit comes amid strained relations between the ayatollahs' regime and the US. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will visit Belarus early next week, according to a report by his political advisor, director of the...
Israeli settlers escalate attacks on Palestinians in West Bank
The New Arab
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Israeli settlers have been ramping up their attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, amid plans to build thousands of illegal settlements aimed at further entrenching Israel's control over the area. Jewish settlers raided the...
Egypt, UNDP discuss outcomes of joint projects, future environmental cooperation
Daily News Egypt
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August 16, 2025
Manal Awad, Egypt’s Minister of Local Development and Acting Minister of Environment, has met with Ghimar Deeb, Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Egypt, to review current and future cooperation...
Rejecting Israel’s expansionist policies
Press TV
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A coalition of 31 Muslim states has slammed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent expansionist policies under the so-called "Greater Israel" plan, commenting that the scheme is a blatant violation of the international law. Stating...
Money20/20 Middle East Unveils Speaker Lineup Before Inaugural Event in Riyadh
The Fintech Times
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August 16, 2025
Money20/20 Middle East, the platform for the fintech and financial community, has announced its speaker lineup, as it plans to bring together the most prominent voices shaping the future of finance, policy, and technology from across the globe....
S&P Upgrades Lebanon’s Local Currency Rating, Keeps Foreign Debt in Default
Sada Elbalad
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August 16, 2025
Sun 17 Aug 2025 | 01:38 AM Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has raised Lebanon’s long-term local currency rating to CCC from CC, while maintaining its selective default (SD) status on foreign currency obligations, citing continued challenges...
How many Turkish floating power plants remain in Cuba?
OnCuba News
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August 16, 2025
A few days ago, the disconnection and subsequent departure of the largest of the Turkish floating power plants remaining in Cuba made headlines. According to the brief official information, this was due to “commercial reasons.” The departure of...
Oppression Starts With Concrete and Ends With the Mind at West Bank Crossing
Truthout
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August 16, 2025
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. This is an adapted excerpt from the introduction of Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in...
Israel's West Bank settlement plan could 'bury' the prospect of a Palestinian state. Here's why
KHBS - Arkansas
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August 16, 2025
Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the illegally occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would "permanently bury the idea of a...
From Las Vegas to the Negev: Israel Faces Scandals Over Pedophilia and Child Abuse
Great Reporter
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August 16, 2025
The arrest of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior Israeli government cyber official, in Las Vegas this month has unleashed shockwaves that stretch far beyond Nevada. Ex-IDF Alexandrovich, 38, was detained during a multi-agency undercover sting...
Israel is quietly in talks to relocate Palestinians from Gaza
Mint
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August 16, 2025
Israel and the U.S. are pushing forward efforts to relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, a move they have presented in humanitarian terms but which governments in Europe and the Arab world have criticized as...
Israel relentlessly bombs Gaza city as child starved to death
The New Arab
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August 16, 2025
Israel is relentlessly bombing Gaza City as part of Netanyahu's occupation plan [Getty] Israeli forces have accelerated their bombing of Gaza City, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent weeks announced that the occupation of...
Islamic Jihad condemns ‘mockery of international law’ as Israel prepares to push Gazans south
Press TV
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The Gaza Strip’s Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has denounced the Israeli regime’s latest plan to move civilians to the southern parts of the coastal sliver, calling it part of a wider campaign of aggression and forced displacement....
Middle East smartphone shipments jump 15% in Q2 2025: Canalys
Gulf Business
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August 15, 2025
Image: Getty Images/ For illustrative purposes Smartphone shipments in the Middle East, excluding Turkey, rose 15 per cent year-on-year to 13.2 million units in Q2 2025, the highest quarterly volume since Q2 2019, research firm Canalys, now part...
Middle East businesses embrace AI-powered analytics to drive smarter decisions
Gulf Business
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August 15, 2025
Karl Crowther, vice president at Alteryx MEA and APAC/Image: Supplied Across the Middle East, organisations are increasingly leveraging AI-powered analytics to boost operational efficiency and accelerate decision-making. Karl Crowther, vice...
Arab States Condemn Israeli Settlement Plans, Call for Ceasefire in Gaza
Miadhu Daily
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Arab Foreign Ministers strongly condemned recent Israeli actions, describing them as grave violations of international law and direct threats to regional and international peace and security. They rejected the approval of a settlement plan in the...
Israel assassinates journalists in Gaza, while the U.S. shields Netanyahu
OpEdNews
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August 16, 2025
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On August 10, Israel deliberately targeted a tent near Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, killing two Al Jazeera journalists, Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqa. Killed with them were...
PETER YOUNG: New UK initiative in Middle East
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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August 15, 2025
By Peter Young After writing extensively in last week’s column about the tragic humanitarian situation in Gaza, I am reluctant to return to the subject of the Middle East again today. However, Britain has just announced its intention to recognise...