German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to discuss bilateral relations as well as expectations from the work of the new European Commission with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the spokesman for the German government, Steffen Seibert, said on Monday

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has ordered the naming of one of the main streets on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi after 'Jacques Chirac' in honour of the late French President and friend of the UAE

Mohammed Hamad Al Rumhy, Oman's oil and gas minister, said on Monday that additional oil output cuts would not be needed unless the global market was oversupplied

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) would welcome the potential exchange of expertise between Russia and the Sahel countries in Africa, Director for UNHCR's Regional Bureau for Southern Africa Valentin Tapsoba told Sputnik in an interview

Morocco has the potential to become an ideal location for a new strategic oil storage facility that will be used for securing the international oil market, Aziz Rabbah, Morocco's minister of energy, mines and environment, told Sputnik