Qatarās offer of a luxury Boeing 747 to President Donald Trump has set off alarm bells within the US intelligence and diplomatic community, where gifts from foreign powers have long been viewed with suspicion. Aside from any legal and ethical qualms about Trump accepting the plane ā an 89-seater with a sumptuous French-designed interior ā…
(Bloomberg) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said heās planning to fire Ronen Bar, the head of the domestic security service Shin Bet, with whom heās quarreled over responsibility for the Oct. 7 attack, hostage negotiations and a probe into links to Qatar. A statement from his office issued Sunday evening said he would instruct…
If you want to reduce international trade and foreign relations to chest-beating displays of dominance, sooner or later youāre going to end up fighting about steel. Hard, unbending, corrosion-resistant and essential to making macho artefacts like skyscrapers, cars and armaments, the metal is associated with images of strength. US President Donald Trump echoed that imagery…
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Minister of Petroleum and VP Delcy Rodriguez, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais, and First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Pavel Sorokin at India Energy Week 2025, in New Delhi on Tuesday | Photo Credit: PIB…
The spacious beige villas in Dohaās northern suburbs were once home to many of the senior leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamists. But they have largely been empty in recent months. Since the last round of American- and Qatari-mediated talks with Israel collapsed in August, the Qataris, once welcoming, have cooled on Hamas. The groupās…
