Tag: Mideast

Palestinian Leader Abbas Ends China Trip After Backing Beijing’s Suppression of Muslim Minorities

June 16, 2023
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up a trip to China Friday after seeking economic aid and voicing support for Beijing’s repressive policies toward Muslim minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. During his four-day visit, Abbas met with head of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping. The leaders then issued a joint statement…

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US Detains Smuggling Ship, UK Seizes Drugs in Mideast Waters

January 23, 2022
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The British royal navy said it confiscated 1,041 kilograms (2,295 pounds) of illegal drugs in the same waters. The interdictions were just the…

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Mideast Leaders Plus France Meet in Baghdad to Talk Security, Diplomacy

August 28, 2021
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BAGHDAD—Several Middle Eastern leaders and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Baghdad on Saturday at a summit hosted by Iraq, which wants its neighbors to talk to each other instead of settling scores on its territory. Relationships within the region are strained chiefly by hostility between Iran on one side and the United States and…

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