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New Delhi: Diplomatic relations have been restored between Qatar and four Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, that imposed an embargo against the former in 2017.
In episode 654 of ‘Cut The Clutter’, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at Qatar, a tiny Middle Eastern country, which at one point was the richest country in the world and is also very friendly with Iran.
Gupta noted that Qatar houses the biggest US Air Force Base in the region, shares an oil field with Iran and has a per capita income of more than $1,40,000 a year.
Furthermore, the country has a native population of less than 4 lakh and also runs the big media organisation
Tripoli [Libya], January 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Prime Minister Fayez Serraj of the UN-backed Libyan government welcomed on Tuesday the results of the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council Summit held in Saudi Arabia which ended the rift with Qatar.
Young girls in Saudi Arabia play basketball. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
There has been a notably reduction of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content in Saudi Arabian textbooks for the coming school year, a Jerusalem-based monitoring group found in a report released Tuesday.
The report came amid recent talk of possible normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, as part of a regional shift that has seen Israel agree to open ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Last week, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia is “inevitable.”
“While the latest… report did not find that new tolerant material had been injected into the curriculum, it did find a substantial amount of offensive material had been removed,” IMPACT-se, which reviews educational material, said in a statement.
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