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The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the US, due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, US President Joe Biden said in a memo on Friday.…
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Middle Eastern sovereign investors are following their global counterparts by prioritizing India and other emerging markets amid concerns over geopolitical tensions, an analysis said. In its latest report, Invesco, a US-based investment…
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Saudi Arabia’s imports and exports increased 5 percent in the first quarter of 2024 despite the tension in the region, according to a senior official. In November 2023, the Saudi Ports Authority, known as Mawani, announced a 5.31 percent…
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Oil prices rose on Friday as heightened tensions in the Middle East raised the risk of supply disruptions from the oil-producing region, though prices are set for weekly losses amid expectations of fewer US interest rate cuts this year,…
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Iraq is working for regional “de-escalation,” Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani said Monday as he welcomed a senior Iranian security official to Baghdad, with tensions high over US strikes in the country and the war in Gaza. Ali…
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said tensions in the South China Sea have “increased rather than diminished” in recent months, warning that a “more assertive China” posed a “real challenge” to its Asian neighbors. In an…
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An attack on an American warship and commercial vessels in the Red Sea on Sunday risks reigniting investor worries about a widening of the war between Israel and Hamas, potentially complicating the outlook for a rally that saw US stocks…
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Staunch US ally Jordan asked Washington to deploy Patriot air defense systems to bolster its border defense at a time of heightened regional tensions and conflict, the spokesperson for the country’s army said on Sunday. “We asked the…
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Iran claimed on Wednesday that it has successfully put an imaging satellite into space. The state-run IRNA news agency, quoting the country’s Communication Minister Isa Zarepour, said the Noor-3 satellite had been put in an orbit 450…
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Russia summoned the Armenian ambassador on Friday to present a protest about what it deemed “unfriendly steps” as tension in the South Caucasus surged over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Within hours, Armenia’s foreign ministry…
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