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2/16/2022 6:53:41 PM
Two senior Cabinet ministers in Kuwait submitted their resignations to the prime minister Wednesday, citing political turbulence and the impossibility of reform in the Gulf Arab state.
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1/30/2022 5:47:29 PM
Kuwait said Sunday that a Lebanese response to a list of suggested measures to ease a diplomatic rift with Gulf Arab countries is currently under review.
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1/17/2022 9:45:00 AM
On a trip to the United Arab Emirates, the president of South Korea on Sunday reportedly reached a preliminary multibillion-dollar deal to sell Seoul's surface-to-air missiles to Abu Dhabi and pledged deeper cooperation with the Gulf Arab federation.
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1/2/2022 5:41:54 PM
Authorities in several Gulf countries renewed weather warnings on Sunday as several days of heavy rains batter the usually arid region.
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12/28/2021 8:19:49 PM
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on Tuesday for a national dialogue among the different governing political parties to discuss Lebanon's ties with Gulf countries, the National News Agency reported.
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12/28/2021 5:43:06 PM
Kuwait's ruling emir announced the formation of a new Cabinet on Tuesday, breaking a monthlong deadlock with the nomination of 15 new government ministers who will have to address a series of political and financial difficulties.
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12/14/2021 1:16:21 PM
A person who was on Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's flight back from the United Arab Emirates has tested positive for COVID-19, the prime minister's office said Tuesday.
Bennett returned to Israel on Monday from a historic two-day trip to the Gulf Arab state, the first by an Israeli leader to the country, which recently normalized ties with Israel.
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12/7/2021 12:46:52 PM
Saudi Arabia signed deals with Oman valued at $30 billion, state media said Tuesday, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began a tour of Gulf Arab countries, including former rival Qatar.
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12/6/2021 9:22:30 PM
The national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates met Monday with Iran's hard-line president in Tehran, a major visit for the Gulf Arab federation that has long viewed the Islamic Republic as its main regional threat.
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12/6/2021 2:19:43 PM
Iran on Monday accused France of "destabilising" the Gulf region after Paris signed a record 14-billion-euro deal with the United Arab Emirates for 80 Rafale fighter jets.
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12/6/2021 1:40:57 PM
Saudi Arabia's crown prince was heading Monday to Oman, the first stop of a tour of Gulf Arab states that will see him meet neighboring rulers and allies as the kingdom closely watches negotiations in Europe to revive Iran's nuclear deal with world powers.
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12/6/2021 12:58:24 PM
The national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates met Monday with his Iranian counterpart and the country's hard-line president in Tehran, a major visit for the Gulf Arab federation that has long viewed the Islamic Republic as its main regional threat.
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12/3/2021 3:33:48 PM
Lebanon's information minister resigned Friday, saying he hoped the much anticipated move will open the way for easing an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab countries. That crisis has added to immense economic troubles facing Lebanon, already mired in a financial meltdown.
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11/12/2021 4:08:49 PM
Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi - whose remarks on Yemen's war sparked a row with Gulf Arab states - said Friday he would consider resigning if diplomatic measures taken against his country are dropped.
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11/8/2021 6:01:00 PM
The Arab League on Monday pressed for an easing of tensions between Lebanon and Gulf Arab states over a Lebanese minister's comments on the Yemen war.
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11/4/2021 8:17:37 PM
Lebanon's prime minister on Thursday again urged the information minister to 'do what needs to be done', an apparent appeal for him step down over an unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia.
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11/2/2021 7:19:46 PM
The island kingdom of Bahrain on Tuesday urged all its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately as a diplomatic crisis escalates between Gulf Arab states and cash-strapped Lebanon.
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9/30/2021 6:44:00 PM
Israel and Bahrain cemented their year-old agreement to establish diplomatic ties on Thursday, with the king of the small Gulf Arab state hosting Israel's foreign minister who for the first time opened an embassy in the capital of Manama
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8/15/2021 10:25:00 AM
Tensions grow in the Gulf as the Iran-Israel shadow war escalates
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8/11/2021 9:50:57 PM
Israel and Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of a political consultation mechanism between their foreign ministries. It was not immediately clear what such a memorandum would encompass
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