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Saudi Arabia, UAE pledge $3 billion aid to Sudan’s new junta amid protests
Apr 22, 2019 08:48Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have announced a joint package of aid worth $3 billion for Sudan, where military leaders seized power from President Omar al-Bashir last week.
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Fatah says Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE pressuring Palestine to accept Trump’s deal
Apr 22, 2019 07:57Some Arab states are exerting “immense pressure” on Palestinians to accept US President Donald Trump’s controversial plan for West Asia, dubbed “the deal of the century,” a senior Fatah official says.
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UAE stabbed Palestine, Islamic world in back with joint Israeli drills: Hamas
Apr 22, 2019 03:41Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has blasted the United Arab Emirates for sending its pilots to train together with Israeli air force, calling the move a “stab in the back” for Palestine and the Islamic world.
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Germany approves weapon supplies to Saudi Arabia, UAE: Der Spiegel
Apr 13, 2019 03:00Germany’s National Security Council has reportedly approved the provision of certain weapons and arms technology to the two main aggressor regimes involved in a deadly war on Yemen, namely Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), despite a ban imposed earlier on arms exports to Riyadh.
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Qatar files lawsuits against UAE, Saudi banks over currency intervention
Apr 09, 2019 01:57Qatar has filed three lawsuits in London and New York against Saudi and Emirati banks, accusing them of using what it called overseas currency manipulation to sabotage its economy amid an ongoing Riyadh-led diplomatic and trade boycott against Doha.
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Iran says Trump’s ‘ruthless’ policies undermining intl. peace, order
Apr 08, 2019 01:37Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says the “ruthless” policies adopted by US President Donald Trump during his term in office have created a tense situation in the world, undermining the global order and international peace.
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UAE minister says Israel boycott was wrong, time for Arab world to change strategy
Mar 30, 2019 00:59A senior official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on Arab nations to change their decades-long strategy of having no diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime, which he brands as a mistake.
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UAE blocks diplomatic efforts to free 11 Lebanese detainees
Mar 15, 2019 08:03The United Arab Emirates has denied Lebanon’s embassy officials the right to meet with 11 Lebanese citizens arrested in the Persian Gulf state over ties to the resistance movement Hezbollah, a media report says.
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EU says will blacklist UAE, Oman as havens for tax evasion
Mar 13, 2019 04:20The finance ministers of the European Union have agreed to revise a blacklist for tax havens outside the bloc, adding 10 countries including the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and British and Dutch oversea territories to the list, despite last-minute push-back by some EU nations.
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Arms flow into West Asia dangerously rises: Study
Mar 11, 2019 08:12The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has found that arms sales to West Asia have grown by 87 percent over the past five years, with Saudi Arabia topping the list of importers.