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Biden Abandons Middle East Peace

✪ The Trump administration was on the verge of securing a peace agreement between Israel and Indonesia in its final weeks in office, according to a former senior Trump administration official involved in the efforts. The official divulged that the negotiations between Israel and the world’s most populous Muslim state were run by then-President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and Adam Boehler, then-head of the US’s International Development Finance Corporation.…

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Iran’s Crumbling Economy: Rising Unemployment & Poverty, Declining Investment And Per Capita Income

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✪ Per capita income is one particular criteria that represent the income and income inequality or wealth inequality within a nation or a group of people in a society. According to available statistics, per capita income (PCI) or average income of Iranian households has been declining instead of increasing over time… 

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Iranian Ministry Of Defense: Top Nuclear Program Scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Assassinated

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✪ Prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated east of the capital Tehran on Friday, Iran’s defense ministry confirmed in a statement. Fakhrizadeh died in hospital due to injuries sustained during a shoot-out between his bodyguards and “armed terrorists” Friday afternoon, the statement said…

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Afghanistan’s Booming Meth Industry May Rival Its Heroin Trade

✪ Production of methamphetamine in Afghanistan has boomed in the past three years. However, it is still largely unknown for which market these massive volumes of meth are destined. Recent seizures of heroin and methamphetamine, and information from research into meth markets in eastern and southern Africa, suggest that some of this new influx of Afghan meth is being trafficked into Africa…

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Trump Says Nine Additional Nations Including Saudi Arabia Could Join Israel Peace Deal

✪ President Donald Trump said Tuesday afternoon that up to nine additional nations could join a peace deal with Israel in the near future, including Saudi Arabia. “We have many other countries [that are] going to be joining us and they’re going to be joining us soon,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. “We’ll have, I think, I mean I think seven, or eight, or nine. We’re going to have a lot of other countries joining us, including the big ones.”

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Arab League Rejects Palestinian Demand To Condemn New Israel-UAE Peace Deal

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✪ The Arab League on Wednesday refused to endorse a Palestinian draft resolution condemning the United Arab Emirates for its normalization agreement with Israel, a move that is a severe blow to the Palestinians, Ramallah officials said.The proposal was presented by the Palestinians to a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers, and Palestinian officials said some Arab countries objected to it.

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Mounting Evidence Points To Hezbollah Culpability in Beirut Blast

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✪ Within an hour of the massive explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4, Hezbollah denied any culpability. Lebanon’s president, Michel Aoun, considered a close Hezbollah ally, immediately attributed the blast to the presence of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that ignited after a nearby warehouse housing fireworks caught fire… 

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