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Iranian FM in Saudi Arabia in first Gulf visit since attack on Qatar
The National News
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, marking his first visit to a Gulf country since the attack on Qatar. Last month, Iran fired missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which hosts US...
Iran nuclear programme 'very delayed' by strikes: intel chief
The New Arab
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July 9, 2025
This picture shows a replica of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant at an exhibition at the International Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology in Isfahan in on May 6, 2024 [Getty] Iran's nuclear programme has been "very, very delayed" by US...
Business : Anwar's Visits To Italy, France, Brazil Boost Malaysia's Global Economic, Humanitarian Standing
Bernama
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July 9, 2025
By Syed Iylia Hariz Al-Qadri Syed Izman and Ummu Khalidah Hamzah KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s recently concluded official visits to Italy, France, and Brazil have been described as a strategic move to...
Iran Bought Chinese Air Defense Systems After The Failure Of Russian S-300s
Charter 97
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Photo: Greg Baker/AFP The weapons were paid for with oil. Iran has purchased a shipment of surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems from China to rebuild an air defense system (ADS) significantly damaged by Israel during the 12-day war, sources tell...
Iranian woman living in US for 47 years released by ICE after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes
The Independent
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Iran ready for nuclear talks, but doubts US sincerity — foreign minister
TASS
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July 8, 2025
LONDON, July 8. /TASS/. Iran is ready to continue negotiations on its nuclear program, but the US should demonstrate its sincerity about a peaceful resolution of the crisis, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in a column for the...
Iran proved it can take on both US, Israel at the same time
Mehr News Agency
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July 9, 2025
Major General Mohsen Rezaei, who took on the IRGC’s commandership following the victory of the country’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, made the remarks during a televised interview on Tuesday. The successful reprisal, he said, harked back to the...
Iran FM visits Saudi Arabia as kingdom makes push for regional diplomacy
Al-Monitor
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July 8, 2025
On his way back from the BRICS summit in Brazil, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stopped in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, where he met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. The meetings follow...
Iran’s FM Araghchi, Saudi Crown Prince MBS hold ‘fruitful’ talks in Jeddah
Al Jazeera
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July 8, 2025
Tehran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi visits Saudi Arabia for the first time after Iran’s 12-day war with Israel. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Jeddah in the first visit by...
Iran Update, July 8, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that undermine regional stability...
The BRICS equation behind the Israel-Iran conflict
Daily Star
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July 9, 2025
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..." —W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Mainstream media coverage of the Israel-Iran conflict often pivots on proxies, retaliation, and regional instability. Analysts...
Israel’s deadly assault on Iran prison incites fury, even among dissidents
Kathimerini
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Ceilings, walls and wooden cabinets collapsed into heaps of jagged debris in the prison’s visitor center. Scorched papers and brightly colored case files lay scattered amid broken bricks and tangled wires in the administration building. Shattered...
Confused by UAE's corporate tax? You should never stop trying to learn
The National News
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From the library to Wikipedia to conversational artificial intelligence chatbots, how we research questions and interrogate the information we retrieve has evolved. I am old enough to have lived through all three mediums. Not without its health...
Trump's Escalating Trade War: India Faces Severe Tariff Threats Amid BRICS Tensions
The Hans India
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July 9, 2025
President Donald Trump has intensified his trade offensive against India and other BRICS nations, announcing severe tariff measures that could significantly impact India's key export sectors. The US President announced a 50% tariff on copper...
Smriti Irani talks about PM Modi’s vision for creative industries of India
Mangalorean
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July 9, 2025
Smriti Irani talks about PM Modi’s vision for creative industries of India Mumbai: Actress and politician Smriti Irani, who is returning to her role of Tulsi Virani in the reboot of ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’, shared how Prime Minister...
Can the Oil Market Absorb OPEC+ Output Hikes?
Oil Price
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July 9, 2025
OPEC+ never fails to surprise speculators and market analysts. This weekend’s meeting to decide August production levels was expected to be a short routine video call to announce another output hike of 411,000 barrels per day (bpd). Short it was,...
Insight of economics: Push and pull factors
Daily FT
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Introduction Sri Lanka is navigating in turbulent waters with uncertainties and risks in the midst of conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and changes to US export tariffs in the offing. Being under the IMF agreement, the Government has...
In show of unity against Trump, Brazil and India vow to triple trade flows
South China Morning Post
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July 9, 2025
As US President Donald Trump revved up his tariff threat against Brics, Brazil and India responded with a show of unity as they vowed to triple bilateral trade during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Brasilia on Tuesday....
We were 48 hours away: Iran says Israel strikes derailed Trump-led nuclear deal
India Today
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July 8, 2025
Iran is still open to diplomacy, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote on Tuesday, revealing that he and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy were close to a “historic breakthrough” before the outbreak of the Israel-Iran war. In an opinion...
Middle East conflict and unfinished business in interfaith dialogues
The Jakarta Post
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resident Donald Trump coined the phrase ‟12 days war″ for the recent armed confrontation between Israel against Iran, with the support of the United States. During those dozen days, a nervous international community grappled with the question of...