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  Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent gratitude to French President Emmanuel Macron, after his official visit to Paris, the capital of France. While sending a series of gratitude to Macron, the Saudi prince reportedly said, “As I leave your friendly country, it gives me great pleasure to express to Your Excellency my deepest gratitude and appreciation for the warm reception and hospitality accorded to me and the accompanying delegation.” During his visit to France, the authorities of the two countries discussed various topics. Prince Mohammed said that bilateral discussions between France and Saudi Arabia stressed the mutual desire to increase the strategic partnership between both countries. The Saudi prince arrived in Paris on Thursday after spending the previous two days in Greece. On Thursday, he was welcomed by Macron at the Elysee Palace, the official residence of the President of the French Republic. Subsequently, they held a wide-ranging meeting. Macr...

  The European Union (EU) put forward a new draft text on Tuesday to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The EU’s foreign policy chief said that there is no room left for further major compromises. While referring to the deal, EU’s Josep Borrell wrote in an essay in the Financial Times, “I have now put on the table a text that addresses, in precise detail, the sanctions lifting as well as the nuclear steps needed to restore the JCPOA.” In 2015, Iran, China, France , Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the nuclear deal, which was also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. Borrell further said, “I have concluded that the space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted.” In the last few months, the EU made significant efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal. The JCPOA participants and the US held 15 months of intense and constructive negotiations in Vienna, the Capital of Austria, about the Iran nuclear deal. Ali B...

  Temperatures in the Middle East nations have increased significantly in the past three decades. The Middle East region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impact of climate change. Experts have claimed that droughts will come in the region with greater frequency and severity because precipitation has decreased. The Middle East nations are already witnessing the impact of climate change. In recent weeks, temperatures in some parts of the Middle East region have topped 50 degrees Celsius. Recently, a study has forecast that temperatures in the Middle East region are set to rise by almost half a degree Celsius per decade. Effects of climate change Since the beginning of April 2022, Iraq and other countries in the Middle East have been hit by a series of severe dust storms. In Iraq, intensified storms have repeatedly smothered cities this year. Dust storms have become common in Iraq. The storms sent thousands of people to the hospital. In May, over 5,00...

  Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's Islamist movement, was granted permission to leave during a court hearing on Tuesday on a money laundering inquiry that his Ennahda party views as a political ploy. After receiving warnings from campaigners that the authorities were considering detaining the 81-year-old Ghannouchi in pre-trial detention, the preliminary hearing before an investigative judge lasted nearly ten hours. Ghannouchi's attorney and a representative of the Ennahdaparty asserted that the judge had released him pending additional inquiry. The hearing takes place less than a week before President Kais Saied holds a referendum on a new constitution that would significantly increase his powers; Ennahda and many other parties have criticized the referendum as being unlawful. In front of the court, about 200 people gathered and chanted, "Down with the coup," alluding to Saied's usurpation of authority, as well as "Ghannouchi, you are not a...

  The national tree of Iraq, the young date palm, forms a line that stretches from the edge of the desert near the capital city of Karbala to the horizon. A campaign to save a long-in-danger heritage culture, whose fruit once symbolized riches throughout the Arab world, is focused on Iraq's treasured trees. According to Mohamed Abul-Maali, commercial director at the Fadak date plantation , "the date palm is the symbol and pride of Iraq." Iraq used to be known as the "land of 30 million palm trees," but decades of strife and environmental problems such as drought, desertification, and salinization have made it difficult for the country to produce dates. The 500-hectare (1,235-acre) Fadak plantation is a farm. The 2016 effort, according to Abul-Maali, aims to "return this culture to what it used to be." More than 90 date types, including Iraqi but also Arab species, from the Gulf and North Africa are stored in the grove, he continues. The Iraqi ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid promised that "there would be no nuclear Iran" during their Thursday meeting with President Joe Biden to discuss Iran's rapidly developing nuclear programme. The US president, who will visit Saudi Arabia on Friday, reportedly also emphasised to Lapid how crucial it is for Israel to "fully integrate" into the region. The focus of Biden's 48-hour visit to deepen the existing close ties between the US and Israel will be their one-on-one discussions. The leaders also released a joint statement highlighting military cooperation and a pledge to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, which Israel views as an adversary. Lapid told reporters later that day, "We talked about the Iranian threat. Iran won't develop nuclear weapons. Israeli officials have attempted to use Biden's first trip to the Middle East as president to highlight how far forwards Iran's nuclear programme has advanced and to encourage the Bid...

  Children's cries resound through the alleyways as they search for lost treasure as part of expanding efforts to revitalise Tunis's Old City. The ninth-century medina is mostly deserted at night and on weekends, despite portions of it being crowded with tourists during the day. The renowned Zitouna Mosque is located in the medina, one of the earliest cities to be founded during the Muslim conquests of North Africa, which writer Hatem Bourial claimed has a strong "emotional charge." The Zitouna is one of the most renowned and first mosque-universities in the world, and it was the birthplace of the madrassa. But when every souk shutters its doors at night, he continued, "people generally don't go in the medina at that time." The medina was first established in the ninth century, but its major growth started in the 13th when Tunis became the centre of the Hafsid dynasty's realm, which extended from Tripoli in what is now Libya along the Medi...

  Following a gas leak in the southern port city of Aqaba, Jordanian police on Thursday charged eight people with a number of offences, primarily acts that resulted in death and damage to other people's property, according to state news agency Petra. In addition to the 135 other testimonies heard earlier in the investigation, the Public Prosecution Office of the Kingdom continued its investigative procedures into the chlorine gas leak case and heard testimony from 25 witnesses who were present at the landing port. On June 27, in Aqaba, a tank of chlorine gas fell while it was being carried by a crane aboard a ship, unleashing the deadly material and causing at least 13 fatalities and over 260 injuries. According to the secretary-general of the Jordanian Judicial Council, Walid Kanakreeh, the PPO-elected technical committee's report on the toxic gas incident revealed that "insufficient" risk assessment and improper handling of containers containing highly hazardo...

  The US Navy is offering monetary rewards of up to $100,000 for information that results in the seizure of illegally transported weapons and drugs in the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf. Although the 5th Fleet, which is based in Bahrain , did not specifically mention Iran in its initiative, analysts said it was clear that it was meant to stop the flow of Iranian weapons to the Houthi militia in Yemen as well as the lucrative regional drug trade run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, spokesman for the 5th Fleet, "Any disruptive action gets our attention." "Undoubtedly, we have observed a sharp increase in success in the recent year in seizing both illegal drugs and unlawful firearms. This is a new step in our efforts to strengthen marine security in the region. The Navy will also accept tips online in Dari and Pashto, and a phone hotline will be staffed by operators who are fluent in Arabic, English, and Farsi. As much as $100,00...

  Abdulhamid Al-Dbeibah, the leader of Libya's Government of National Unity, stated that he supports the country's demonstrators and agrees that all institutions, including the government, should be replaced, and that there is no other way to achieve this other than by "election." After demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tobruk, in the east, and held the largest rally in years in Tripoli, the capital city of the west, Dbeibah made his remarks. In order to protest the deteriorating living conditions and the political impasse, demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tobruk, in eastern Libya. On Friday, media sites displayed pictures of dense columns of black smoke emanating from the parliament building's perimeter as irate teenage protestors torched tyres. Several television programs reported that protesters had entered the parliament building and committed acts of damage. Since Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in a NATO -backed rebell...