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Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's Written Replies to Parliamentary Questions, 4 November 2025

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's Written Replies to Parliamentary Questions, 4 November 2025

QUESTION Mr Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs (a) what is Singapore’s current position on diplomatic relations with Syria’s new leadership; and (b) whether the Ministry is exploring opportunities for trade,...

Owner:  Singaporean Government
Working Visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to the Palestinian Territories, 4 November 2025

Working Visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to the Palestinian Territories, 4 November 2025

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan made a working visit to Ramallah on 4 November 2025. Minister Balakrishnan called on Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Dr Mohammad Mustafa and had separate meetings with Minister of...

Owner:  Singaporean Government
Transcript of Remarks by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan at the Cheque Handover Ceremony to the World Food Programme for Gaza, 4 November 2025

Transcript of Remarks by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan at the Cheque Handover Ceremony to the World Food Programme for Gaza, 4 November 2025

Excellencies Dr Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Dr Musa Abu Zaid, Chairman of the General Personnel Council Ms Jane Waite, Head of Programmes of World Food Programme Palestine Mr Hawazi Daipi, Singapore’s...

Owner:  Singaporean Government
Strengthening the Southern Flank: NATO Parliamentarians Examine Security and Migration in the Mediterranean
From the West Wing to the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza with Bill Clinton

From the West Wing to the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza with Bill Clinton

In this episode of Taking the Edge Off the Middle East, host Brian Katulis is joined by Mara Rudman, MEI Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow and veteran of the Obama and Clinton administrations. Together, they discuss political process, peacemaking,...

Owner:  The Middle East Institute (Non-Profit)
From Protest to War: How October 7 Reshaped Israeli Democracy

From Protest to War: How October 7 Reshaped Israeli Democracy

For years, Israeli populist politicians have chipped away at the country’s democratic guardrails. But the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023 accelerated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s drive to consolidate power. The kind of societal pushback...

Owner:  The Middle East Institute (Non-Profit)
Working Visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to the Middle East, 3 to 6 November 2025

Working Visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to the Middle East, 3 to 6 November 2025

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will make a working visit to the Palestinian Territories and Israel from 3 to 6 November 2025. Minister Balakrishnan’s visit follows the recent implementation of the first phase of the ceasefire...

Owner:  Singaporean Government
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Middle East leaders agree to police Gaza on behalf of US and Israel

Middle East leaders agree to police Gaza on behalf of US and Israel

Last month’s obscene scene at Sharm el-Sheikh represents an ever more disgusting link in the chain of the Middle East regimes’ decades-long history of betraying the Palestinians. Their signing by the Middle East regimes of US President Donald...

Owner:  International Committee of the Fourth International

Pope Leo’s Middle East trip to focus on dialogue, peace

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and its Creed, as well as reaffirming hopes for peace in the Middle East, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon Nov....

Owner:  Diocese of Honolulu
Nineveh ready for Iraq's elections, governor says

Nineveh ready for Iraq's elections, governor says

2025-11-05T13:06:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Nineveh The northern Iraqi province of Nineveh has finalized preparations for Iraq’s November 11 parliamentary elections, Governor Abdulqadir al-Dakhil announced on...

Owner:  Non-transparent
Why Israel cannot shape the architecture of the New Middle East

Why Israel cannot shape the architecture of the New Middle East

As the world undergoes sweeping geopolitical realignments, the Middle East, too, is transforming rapidly — but not in the way Israeli and American officials had imagined. Even if the fragile Gaza truce holds, the current convergence between...

Owner:  Daud Al-Jamal Abdullah
Iran to rebuild nuclear programme

Iran to rebuild nuclear programme

Iranian President Masoud Pezeskhian said Tehran aims to rebuild nuclear facilities damaged in the attacks by US and Israeli forces in June. During a visit to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Pezeshkian said Iran would “not be set...

Owner:  Michael "Mike" Danson
Egypt, Kyrgyzstan Sign Visa Waiver, Stress Economic & Strategic Partnership

Egypt, Kyrgyzstan Sign Visa Waiver, Stress Economic & Strategic Partnership

Wed 05 Nov 2025 | 06:46 PM ​Badr Abdel Atty, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigration and Expatriate Affairs, underscored the importance of increasing trade exchange and economic and investment cooperation with the Kyrgyz Republic. This, he...

Owner:  Mohammed Abu Al Enein
Sustainability Forum Middle East welcomes BASREC as Forum Partner
Egypt’s cabinet approves automatic registration for universal health insurance
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