RIYADH (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Gulf Arab nations are asking that Netflix remove any material that they perceive to be against Islamic and societal norms. The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Saudi Arabia’s media watchdog issued a statement on Tuesday threatening
JERUSALEM (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Following a widespread backlash against the regulations, which at first included requirements that foreigners inform authorities in Israel within 30 days of beginning a relationship with a Palestinian resident, Israel has postponed implementing the set of newly
ANKARA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatened military action and warned that Greece would pay a “heavy price” if it persisted in harassing Turkish fighter jets over the Aegean. Long-standing maritime and aerial boundary disputes between the two
DOHA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to the Global Sustainability Assessment System, the FIFA World Cup venue Stadium 974 received a five-star rating, reported the Qatar News Agency. The venue has a capacity of 40,000-capacity. Prefabricated and modular steel components, which cut
DOHA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The tiny Gulf nation of Qatar is getting ready to receive over a million soccer fans as it prepares for a World Cup tourism boom. One problem: many of them are unable or unwilling to stay there.
TEHRAN (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to the Guardian’s report on Tuesday, Iran has been shaken by protests after a woman who was detained for violating recently tightened hijab rules confessed on state television after allegedly being tortured. The 28-year old Sepideh
TEHRAN (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Imminent European proposals to resurrect the nuclear deal between the West and Iran including the release of frozen Iranian funds worth billions of dollars and oil exports in exchange for Iran curtailing its nuclear programme. Sources familiar
BEIRUT (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Najib Mikati, the prime minister-designate of Lebanon, has started a new effort of government formation and ended the protracted political impasse that has engulfed the nation for months. After their Wednesday meeting, President Michel Aoun received a
BEIRUT (Parliament Politics Magazine) – On August 4, 2020, at 6:07 p.m. local time, hundreds of tonnes of dangerously stored ammonium nitrate ignited in Warehouse 12 in the Port of Beirut. The third biggest non-nuclear explosion devastated the port and a whole
KABUL (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Since the targeted killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Doha deal, which was agreed between the US and the Taliban almost two years ago, has been the topic of heated controversy. On Sunday morning, a US
