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...At a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Blinken indicated that the US was open to Saudi nuclear and security demands, a US official said....
...The EU’s role in the agreement was negotiated during a visit by von der Leyen to Abu Dhabi on Thursday, EU officials said, during talks with UAE president Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.The collaboration...
...Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said he “lamented the political exploitation” of Doha’s diplomacy by some politicians who were “marketing their electoral campaigns through the defamation of Qatar...
...And here’s what else I’ll be watching on a busy day: US-Iraq relations: Middle East tensions will be very much on the agenda today as President Joe Biden hosts Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani...
...A person familiar with the matter said the strike killed Wisam Mohammed “Abu Baqer” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria....
...Hamas’s attack has also upended a push by the Biden administration to strike a deal to normalise relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel....
...Sheikh Mohammed said the Biden administration had been helpful throughout the hostage negotiations, but added “we believe there is more to be done on the ceasefire”....
...A person familiar with the matter named him as Wisam Mohammed “Abu Baqer” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hizbollah’s operations in Syria....
...Iraq’s prime minister, Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, called the attack “unjustified” and a “dangerous escalation and a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty”....
...On Tuesday Prince Mohammed spoke with US president Joe Biden, according to the White House....
...Joe Biden, who pledged to treat Saudi Arabia as a pariah as he campaigned for the US presidency, held talks with Prince Mohammed in Jeddah in July last year as he sought Riyadh’s help in reducing high oil...
...Talks between Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia picked up pace over the summer, and President Joe Biden met Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on the sidelines of the United Nations meeting in New...
...But Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the Financial Times that more than 40 other women and children were being kept captive in Gaza who were not believed to be held by...
...The negotiations in Saudi Arabia this week come ahead of a possible meeting between US president Joe Biden and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s day-to-day ruler, on the sidelines of...
...Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the Financial Times on Sunday that, for the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas to be extended, the Palestinian group would have to...
...Biden has largely patched up his relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, after having pledged to turn him into a pariah following the 2018 murder of Washington Post commentator...
...The Hamas figures targeted included Yahya Sinwar, its leader in Gaza, and Mohammed Deif, commander of its military wing....
...Qatari Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani discusses security in the Middle East at an Atlantic Council event in Washington DC....
...Before that, US president Joe Biden threatened to turn Saudi Arabia and its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, into a pariah over the 2018 murder of Saudi commentator Jamal Khashoggi and for the war in Yemen...
...The UAE was one of only two countries to nominate housekeeping staff, nearly all registered with the office of Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, whose son Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan is president of the UAE....
...An Arab diplomat said Turkey, Egypt and Qatar were liaising with the Biden administration as they talk to Israel and Hamas....
...Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who has been leading negotiations with Hamas over the release of hostages, said at a press conference in Doha that “there has been good progress...
...Hamas has long championed itself as the defender of Al-Aqsa, which lies in a compound known by Palestinians as Haram al-Sharif and is Islam’s third holiest site....
...Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told reporters in Doha on Sunday that “there has been good progress in the past few days”....
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