Middle East Experience

Five workers died and several more were missing after a rockslide in a remote part of Oman, emergency authorities said on Sunday.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Search and rescue teams were at the scene in al-Arid in the northern governorate of al-Dhahirah, Oman’s Civil Defense and Ambulance Authority said.“Five people were rescued and five others died, and the search for missing people under the rubble is still going on,” the agency tweeted, without giving further details.Al-Dhahirah, the landlocked, sparsely populated governorate west of the capital, Muscat, borders the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.Read more: Russian forces take Chernobyl workers’ town as fighting continues in MariupolTwo men collapse, die in Sri Lanka while waiting in queues for fuelOman to list 35 state-owned companies in five years: Bourse CEO
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Five workers killed in Oman rockslide: Officials

Lebanon has been grappling with a worsening economic and humanitarian situation over the past three years..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Lebanese PM says Beirut's ties with the GCC to return to 'normal'

The United States has no strategy of regime change for Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Sunday after President Joe Biden a day earlier said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”“I think the President, the White House made the point last night that, quite simply, President Putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else,” Blinken said at a press conference during a visit to Jerusalem.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“As you know, and as you’ve heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else, for that matter. In this case, as in any case, it’s up to the people of the country in question. It’s up to the Russian people,” Blinken said.In a major speech during his trip to Poland, US President Joe Biden said that Russia's leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” remarks a White House official said later were meant to prepare the world's democracies for extended conflict over Ukraine, not back regime change in Russia.Those comments by Biden, including a statement earlier in the day calling Putin a “butcher,” were a sharp escalation of the US approach to Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.In an address delivered at Warsaw’s Royal Castle. Biden evoked Poland’s four decades behind the Iron Curtain in an effort to build a case that the world’s democracies must urgently confront an autocratic Russia as a threat to global security and freedom.A White House official said Biden’s remark that Putin cannot remain in power did not represent a shift in the position of Washington, which has avoided direct military involvement in Ukraine and has specifically said it does not back regime change.“But what we do have is a strategy to strongly support Ukraine,” Blinken said.“We have a strategy to put unprecedented pressure on Russia, and we’re carrying that forward. And we have a strategy to make sure that we’re providing all of the humanitarian support that we can, and we have a strategy to reinforce NATO,” he added.Read more:Ukraine’s Lugansk separatist region may hold referendum on joining Russia: PasechnikIsrael PM Bennett says he hopes US to heed calls against IRGC terrorism listingBlinken says Israel mediation on Ukraine war important, closely coordinated with US
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: US has no strategy of regime change in Russia: Blinken

A screaming match broke out between left-wing and right-wing ministers as the Israeli government approved the construction of five new towns in the northern Negev region.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Chaos engulfs government as Israel approves five new Negev towns

Israel's president addresses Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in Dallas
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Herzog to Christians: We are eager to welcome you all back in Jerusalem

UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry arrived in Israel on Sunday to attend a five-way regional summit, an official Twitter account for Israel reported, as talks to revive a nuclear deal with Iran remain in limbo.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt will hold a series of diplomatic meetings on Sunday and Monday in Israel.The UAE and Bahrain normalized ties with Israel in 2020 under a US-brokered deal known as the Abraham Accords, creating a new regional dynamic based on mutual concern over Iran. Morocco followed suit last year.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The leaders of Egypt, Israel and the United Arab Emirates met in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday for talks on the economic impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Iran’s influence, at a time of uncertainty over Washington’s security commitment in the region.Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979.Read more:Zelenskyy insists on need for ‘meeting’ with PutinAbu Dhabi Crown Prince meets Egypt’s president, Jordan’s king, Iraqi PM in AqabaErdogan accuses West of making Russia-Ukraine crisis worse, criticizes Biden
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: UAE, Bahrain and Egypt foreign ministers arrive in Israel to attend regional summit

Right-wing politicians in Israel and the settlement movement prefer to speak of by its biblical names of Judea and Samaria.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Bennett speaks of West Bank, not Judea and Samaria, irking Israeli Right

Israel is exploiting Arab ‘fear’ to liquidate the Palestinian issue, the Palestinian Authority said.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Palestinian factions decry ‘summit of shame’ in Negev

The countries, which have their own relationships with Russia, have provided some modest backing, but Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will ask for more..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Blinken to Press Mideast Allies for Stronger Support for Ukraine

The law has now expanded to prevent state pension funds from investing in any company, business entity, and subsidiary that participates in BDS activity. 
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Israeli Midwest envoy attends Iowa’s anti-BDS bill signing: 'Shows true friendship'