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The Iraqi parliament’s foreign relations committee on Sunday hosted Iraq’s foreign minister Fouad Hussein to request clarification on Ankara’s claims that the recent Turkish cross-border military incursion into the Iraqi Kurdistan region against the Ku…

On 7 April 2022, the IMF announced in a statement that it had reached a preliminary agreement with the Lebanese government, whereby Lebanon would receive a $3 billion loan from the institution over a 3-4 year period. The country would then need to pay …

Angry residents in north Lebanon’s Tripoli protested on Sunday night following a devastating incident that saw an overloaded migrant boat sink off the city’s coast killing at least seven passengers. Gunshots rang out in Tripoli’s Qibbeh neighbourhood, …

For the second day in a row, Israeli authorities have closed down the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, tightening the movement of Palestinian workers and merchants until further notice, in response to rockets that were launched from the coasta…

Arab leaders congratulated French President Emmanuel Macron on his re-election on Sunday for a second term after beating far-right challenger Marine Le Pen. Macron won re-election on Sunday, convincingly defeating his rival and prompting a wave of reli…

Fighting between rival groups in Sudan’s Darfur killed at least 168 people on Sunday, an aid group said, in the latest bout of deadly violence to hit the restive region. Darfur, which was ravaged by civil war that erupted in 2003, has seen a spike in d…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Kyiv, his office said Sunday. It was the first meeting between Zelensky and US officials since the Russian invasion of Ukraine bega…

French President Emmanuel Macron won re-election on Sunday, convincingly defeating his rival Marine Le Pen and prompting a wave of relief in Europe that the far-right had been kept out of power. Centrist Macron was set to win around 58 percent of the v…

Oman facilitated the release of 14 foreigners, including a British national, who were held in Yemen and transferred them from the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa to Muscat on Sunday, Oman’s foreign ministry said. The people freed included a Brit…

Palestine’s ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot praised the chairman of an English football club after it flew Palestine’s national flag during a match at its stadium. Dale Vince, who presides over League Two team Forest Green Rovers FC, said the flag w…