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...In 2017, the kingdom rejoined the African Union, 33 years after it had left in anger over the recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, set up by the Polisario Front, which seeks independence...
...with the People’s Republic of China....
...According to S&P Global estimates, gas flows from Russia are now around a quarter of what they were in the first half of 2021, meeting only about one-twelfth of average European demand....
...They are the first port of call for gas for European nations....
...Local and imported grain shortages have been cited as one of the causes of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, as well as the Syrian civil war....
...As the most important potential bulwark against China, for example, India, which Sweden’s V-Dem, a research institute that measures levels of democracy, recently downgraded to an “electoral autocracy”, could...
...In 2017, the Saudis, Emiratis and Bahrain, along with Egypt, blockaded the gas-rich emirate of Qatar over its links with Iran and support for the Pan-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood....
...One of the most astonishing things he said is that we know that the US doesn't think that Russia should be allowed to have all of its oil and gas wealth to itself....
...A centre spread in that month’s issue of Adbusters featured a poster of Wall Street’s Charging Bull sculpture with a ballerina balanced atop it and protesters emerging from a fog of tear gas below....
...Mr Erdogan will particularly savour the setback to the Arab trio, with whom he has been in escalating conflict since the Arab spring rebellions of 2011 because of Ankara’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood...
...It is owned by Eni — the other JV partner in Unión Fenosa Gas — which is the largest gas producer in Egypt, with a current output of 320,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day....
...Morocco’s new focus on Africa made restoring its membership of the African Union in January 2017 essential, ending a boycott dating back to 1984 after the rival Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was...
...The former Soviet republic is part of the so-called Southern Gas Corridor, a $45bn megaproject to supply natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe, reducing its reliance on Russian imports....
...further into the arms of the Islamic republic....
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...One of the main drivers behind Moscow’s push into the Middle East is the fallout from the 2011 Arab uprising that triggered upheaval across the region....
...countries in its portfolio such as Nigeria, Mozambique, the Republic of Congo, Angola and Ghana....
...With a population of about 82m and annual gross domestic product estimated at $406bn, Iran will be the largest economy to re-enter international markets since the fall of the Soviet Union....
...— topped that of the US S&P 500 Index....
...Balint is a former Brussels correspondent for a range of Hungarian newspapers and the author of two books, one about the European Union and one about the Hungarian army....
...In May they signed a letter of intent to sell gas from Israel’s smaller Tamar offshore field to a second Egyptian refinery operated by Unión Fenosa Gas, a joint venture between Spain’s Gas Natural and Italy...
...The S&P 500’s jump of 1.2 per cent on Friday, in spite of a sell-off in Asia earlier in that session, gave investors in Asia another reason to reassess valuations....
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...The mainly Muslim republic, a former French colony, is seen as important in the fight against al-Qaeda-linked groups....
...the European Union....
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