Section: Middle East Monitor (Kuwait)
Salah voted African Footballer of the Year
Egypt striker Mohamed Salah was voted as the African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday, Reuters reports.Salah beat fellow nominees, Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.He edged the same two players last...
For G20 leaders, greater problems yet to come
World leaders heading home after the weekend G20 might be justified in breathing brief sighs of relief. Unlike at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit two weeks ago, the heads of state were able to agree on a joint communiqué. A landmark meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was claimed a success by...
Jamal Khashoggi cast the largest shadow at the G20 summit
I believe that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is a murderer. I will not call him an alleged murder, say he is suspected of being involved in murder or use any other misleading phrases to cover up the issue. Even a naïve individual knows that not even the smallest thing can occur in Saudi Arabia without a direct order from Mohammad Bin Salman,...
UN’s Guterres hopes Yemen peace talks will resume by year-end
The United Nations is “working hard to ensure the start of meaningful peace talks in Yemen” before the end of the year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday. Speaking in Buenos Aires ahead of the start of the Group of 20 summit of industrialized nations, Guterres said he did not want to raise expectations, due to “a number of...
Russia and Turkey ink pipeline agreement, end gas dispute
Reuters reports Russian state gas giant Gazprom said on Saturday it had signed a protocol with the Turkish government on a planned gas pipeline and agreed with Turkish firm Botas to end an arbitration dispute over the terms of gas supplies. The protocol concerned the land-based part of the transit leg of the TurkStream gas pipeline, which Gazprom...
Mo Salah, fatwas and fallen heroes
Egyptian-born footballer Mohamed Salah hopes to help Liverpool FC to lift the cup next Saturday in the final of Europe’s prestigious UEFA Champions League, arguably the world’s top club competition. As sporting occasions go — FIFA World Cup aside — games don’t get any bigger or more significant than this; it’s a...
Muslim Salafist leader says Mo Salah may not break his fast for final game
The vice president of the Salafi Dawah group, Yasser Borhami said according to Islamic Sharia law, Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah cannot break his fasting during the Champions League final match which will take place on May, 26 the first week of the Muslims Holy month of Ramadan. Borahmi said in a statement that the Quran did not say that...
54 ambassadors boycott Israeli American Embassy celebration
54 out of 86 ambassadors to Israel, boycotted a ceremony held by the Israeli Foreign Ministry yesterday evening in Jerusalem on the eve of Washington’s transfer of its embassy to the occupied city. The Haaretz newspaper reported that most EU member states did not participate in the ceremony because they have a firm policy towards the...
How Vladimir Putin weaponised the Iraq dodgy dossier
When he first came to power the world leader Vladimir Putin most admired was Tony Blair. This fact is little known, rarely acknowledged, and frankly scary. In fact, Blair was the very first foreign premier to visit Russia after he took power. Putin was still misleading the world that he would be a liberalising reformer. A naïve Blair bought the...
Don’t count on a divorce between Russia and Iran just yet
Since the Russian-Syrian alliance was forged in Syria several years ago, many have wondered what could bring together the former communist Russia and Shia Iran. The Russian government is nominally orthodox Christian, democratic and ostensibly capitalist, as well as a system based upon the farming of intelligence. Iran, meanwhile, is a theocracy...
