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The stakes are high in Lebanon's election. The heavily armed Hezbollah Movement has seen one of its main rivals descend into disarray, handing it an opportunity to cement power...
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A US Senate committee is expected to pass a Bill on Thursday that could open members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners to antitrust lawsuits for...
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Emboldened by an oil price surge since Russia invaded Ukraine, Iran's clerical rulers are in no rush to revive a 2015 nuclear pact with world powers to ease sanctions...
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Since Sudan's military staged a coup six months ago, many former allies of toppled autocrat, Omar Al-Bashir, have been allowed to rejoin the civil service, while others have been...
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The fallout of the Russia and Ukraine war has just helped tip two of world's poorest countries into full-blown crises, and the list of those at risk – and...
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By single-handedly knocking 13 per cent off rocketing oil prices on one day this week, the United Arab Emirates demonstrated the power Gulf producers wield in the market and...
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Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al-Hariri, who fled the war in his country for neighbouring Lebanon 10 years ago, spent the last decade hoping in vain to escape to a new...
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As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major, Waheeda Bayat, will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her course at the private Gawharshad...
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The IMF has asked Lebanon to fulfil a string of pre-conditions before negotiating a bailout, four sources briefed on recent talks said, pressing for steps Beirut has long failed...
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Ukraine asks Turkey to ban Russian ships from its waterways
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In a brightly lit classroom in Gaza, a teacher spells out Hebrew words on a whiteboard, followed attentively by Maher Al-Farra and dozens of other Palestinians hoping to take...
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A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world's most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington...
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A move by Libya's parliament to oust Interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, who had promised not to use his stand-in position for political advancement, is testament to his success...
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Ahmed Samir zips expertly through the Cairo traffic in his tuk-tuk, making a meagre living by ferrying Egyptians around the chaotic mega-city in his three-wheeled people carrier, Thomson Reuters...
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Idrees Al-Haddad used to buy seven kilogramme tubs of Yemen's world-famous honey when he went shopping. Today he can only afford one kilogramme. Like many Yemenis suffering the extreme...
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Short of masks and short of protective gowns, Yemen's over-stretched medical workers started dying from COVID-19. Nadia Dhrah – herself a doctor – was dismayed, so she resolved to...
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A decision by Sunni Muslim leader, Saad Al-Hariri, to step away from Lebanese politics opens the way for Shia Hezbollah to extend its already deep sway over the country,...
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Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have launched two missile attacks at the United Arab Emirates in the last week, raising the stakes in a ruinous and complex conflict. Monday's assault, which...
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Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May's fierce Israeli attack on Gaza, was slowly being...
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On the afternoon of 30 December, security forces banged on the windows of Khartoum Teaching Hospital then fired tear gas into an emergency room packed with protesters injured in...
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The biggest task facing Kuwait's octogenarian crown prince after unexpectedly stepping in for the emir this month will be to tackle the perennial political feuding which has long blocked...
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Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the UAE's de facto ruler, will visit Turkey for the first time in years, as the regional rivals work to...
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Kuwait's Crown Prince has been asked to carry out some of Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah's constitutional duties on a temporary basis, state news agency, KUNA. said on Monday,...
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Yemeni forces under a Saudi-led coalition said on Friday they have withdrawn from around the main port of Hodeidah held by their foes, the Houthis, as the Red Sea...
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Democratic US Representative, Ilhan Omar, filed legislation on Friday seeking to block the sale of $650 million air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia, the first major arms sale to the...
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The United States and Qatar have agreed that Qatar will represent the diplomatic interests of the United States in Afghanistan, a senior US official told Reuters, an important signal...
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Iran will adopt an uncompromising stance when it resumes nuclear talks with major powers, betting it has the leverage to win wide sanctions relief in return for curbs on...
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Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon,...
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In his eighties, Mohammed Hadi Al-Harmali has been uprooted four times by shifting frontlines during the seven years of Yemen's brutal civil war. Out of money and bedridden with...
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Already mired in economic collapse, Lebanon is facing a blast of Gulf Arab anger after a prominent broadcaster-turned-minister levelled blunt criticism at Saudi Arabia, in a row that has...
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Mona Al-Khurais has loved guns ever since as a young girl her father took her on hunting trips in Saudi Arabia and taught her how to shoot. Five years...
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After dawn prayers Hatim Ali Hadi dons his tracksuit and heads to a park in the Yemeni capital Sanaa for group exercise sessions which help take people's minds off...