After concluding his travel to Japan and India, Thomas West, US Envoy for Afghanistan, will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai, former ministers and Afghan politicians Omar Zakhilwal, Karim Khurram have all arrived beforehand; despite that, the Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid is also on his visit to UAE.

“A Jewish diplomat expressed his concern about the absence of acceptance of the normalization and peace agreements, signed by the Jewish entity with some rulers of Arab countries, by the peoples of those countries. It was evident in the World Cup in Qatar that the peoples refuse normalization with the occupation.”

There is confusion among many Kenyans as to whether it was wise for the government to lift the ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). For a country that is annually plagued by food insecurity occasioned by among other factors, drought which has exposed millions of Kenyans to hunger each year,

 Speaking at the Special Dialogue session of the 8th Mediterranean Dialogue Forum, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said, "It would be wrong to think that normalizing relations with Israel is a betrayal of the Palestinian issue."