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AlUla Declaration has turned the page on Gulf tensions

  • In January, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman invited the leaders of the five other Gulf Cooperation Council member states to a meeting in AlUla, where he put forward his collective reconciliation project. The AlUla Declaration was signed in the presence of representatives from Egypt, the US, th...
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign adventures may prove costly for Turkey

  • Few people know that Turkey has a military base in Mogadishu, far from its borders, and that Turkey’s largest embassy in the world is in the Somali capital; noting the only thing in common between Libya and Somalia is that they are both torn by war. Turkey has also had a foothold in Sudan’s Sua...
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Erdogan’s bewildering character

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become a prominent figure in the region’s politics because of his involvement in the area’s problems and wars. Most Arabs have gradually become aware of his true identity, previously hidden by the propaganda spread by his allies, the extremist Islamist...
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The worst is yet to come in Libya

  • Two factions have been battling for power in Libya since 2015. Like all regional wars, this war started as a simple domestic conflict, then escalated as it became entangled in regional and international agendas. The developments in the country during the past few days are important on a numbe...
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Will Mustafa Al-Kadhimi save Iraq?

  • Newly appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, right, receives his portfolio from President Barham Salih, Baghdad, April 9, 2020. (Reuters) There are a few signs in Baghdad that seem to suggest change is in the air. For example, a giant mural near Baghdad Internati...
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Damascus — caught between two cousins

  • When we consider a relative balance of power, there is really no comparison between a president of a nation who holds a near-complete authority, and the CEO of a telecommunications company — even if he happens to be the president’s cousin. Whoever controls the army, the security forces and the ...
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World leaders need to start making tough decisions

  • A swab is taken from a man at a drive-thru coronavirus screening centre in Abu Dhabi, March 30, 2020. (Reuters) There are many questions we might feel uncomfortable asking, or even thinking about, yet they persist in our minds no matter how much we try to ignore or dismiss them. ...
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Healthcare systems under review

  • The NHS has called on retired doctors and nurses to consider returning to work to assist in the treatment of patients with coronavirus. (Getty Images)  As part of the battle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), health authorities in the UK have urged the government to...
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Governments caught between their image and their citizens’ safety

  • The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed a political crisis no less serious than the disease itself. It has reached the stage where some governments are presenting false statistics regarding the total number of cases and deaths in their country, and have even filtered the inform...
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Coronavirus a test for the world

  • Calamities are usually the issues of others and are met with some empathy or indifference. COVID-19 is a different pandemic, although it is neither the most serious nor the ugliest in history. It is frightening because of its ambiguity, rapid spreading, and terrifying news — and because it equa...
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