Passengers at Muscat’s Seeb International Airport faced a fresh round of cancellations and long delays on Sunday as disruptions affecting Gulf Air and Qatar Airways rippled across key routes linking Muscat with Bahrain, Doha, Cairo, Luxembourg and other major cities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday in Munich, Germany that Ukraine is ready for an agreement that will bring real peace.

China is considering the possibility of creating another “Middle Corridor” to reinforce the current Trans Caspian route, said Wang Huiyao, founder and president of China’s leading non governmental think tank, the Center for China and Globalization, during a panel discussion titled “Open Corridor Politics? Deepening Trans Caspian Cooperation” at the Munich Security Conference.

It makes no sense for Europe to start negotiations with Russia, as the United States is currently doing, said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Munich Security Conference.

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Europe is expected to import a record volume of liquefied natural gas this year, with global supply also projected to rise sharply, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

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