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Iraq finance

Iraqi startup Lezzoo expands with purchase of Saydo

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (C) holds a joint press conference with Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (L) and Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom (R) following meetings at the State Department in Washington, DC, Dec. 8, 2022.

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US confident Sweden, Finland will soon join NATO despite Turkey's holdup

Brittney Griner

Inside UAE, Saudi roles in facilitating release of Brittney Griner

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Al-Monitor Staff

People pose for a photo as artist JR, in partnership with For Freedoms, Vital Voices, and the Woman, Life, Freedom global coalition of Iranian women leaders.

TIME magazine names Iranian women ‘heroes of the year’

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Abu Dhabi

UAE business center releases whistleblowing guidelines

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Russian delegation heads to Turkey amid potential Syria offensive

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Water pours into an irrigation pool in Ghor al-Haditha, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on April 20, 2021.

Jordan partners with USAID on water loss

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Al-Monitor Staff

AKP party supporters attend the "Unity, Will, Victory" rally at the Galatasaray's Nef Stadium in Istanbul on Nov. 27, 2022, six months ahead of Turkey's next presidential elections.

Al-Monitor/Premise poll finds tight race for Erdogan in Turkey's elections

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An electric bus designed and built locally by Roam, a Swedish-Kenyan technology company, is seen in Nairobi on Oct. 19, 2022 during a media presentation.

Egypt builds on COP27 with electric bus deal

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu addresses a press conference with the NATO Secretary General after their meeting at The Foreign Ministry in Istanbul on Nov. 3, 2022.

Turkey asks Finland to resume defense sales amid NATO talks

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Al-Monitor Staff

The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) minister of industry and advanced technology, Sultan al-Jaber (L), looks on as John Kerry, the US president's climate envoy, tours the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation (GMIS) Summit in Dubai on November 22, 2021. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

PRO: Middle East climate tech startups to be hot investment in 2023

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Al-Monitor Staff

A worker carries an empty Petronas gas cylinder on his shoulder at a shop in Ampang, in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Feb. 29, 2016.

Malaysia’s Petronas to explore for 'unconventional oil' in Abu Dhabi

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Al-Monitor Staff