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Addis Ababa slams bloc calling on UN Security Council to intervene in Ethiopia’s dispute with Egypt and Sudan.
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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Palestine on the agenda of Arab League foreign ministers’ talks in Doha.
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Support for King Abdulla comes as former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein says he is under house arrest.
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Prague opened a Jerusalem branch of its Israel embassy last week in move denounced as a violation of international law.
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UAE foreign minister calls for return of Syria to the Arab League saying it is in the interest of the region.
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Palestine was meant to chair Arab League meetings for next six months, but FM Riyad al-Maliki has declined the position.
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After three-hour talks, some Arab countries attempted to add provisions to give legitimacy to the normalisation deal.
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Arab foreign ministers will attend a virtual session against the backdrop of UAE normalising relations with Israel.
Emergency meeting of the bloc initiated by Egypt was rejected by Libya’s internationally recognised government.
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Top Arab diplomats urge US to withdraw support for Israel’s plans to annex ‘any part of the Palestinian territories’.
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Arab leaders say US initiative does not meet ‘minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people’.
Gulf and Arab leaders are in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings over rising US-Iran tensions.
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The move comes after Israel blocked tax transfers to the PA earlier this year over payments to Palestinian prisoners.
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Is it time for the Arab League to disband?