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File photo of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri speaking after meeting with President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon November 7, 2019. (REUTERS)
Lebanese former PMs criticize government over lack of reform
March 30, 2020
Uncharacteristic silence. A 2019 file picture of a meeting between Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Kuala Lumpur.
Turkish leaders mum on Iran’s suspected killing of dissident in Istanbul
March 29, 2020
A motorbike passes by a defaced picture of Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Adnan al-Zurfi in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, March 19. (AP)
Iraqi PM-designate struggles to form government amid daunting challenges
March 28, 2020
An election banner for the Israeli Blue and White alliance with pictures of its leader retired military General Benny Gantz (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in Ramat Gan, February 17. (AFP)
Israel’s Gantz elected speaker, to seek unity government with Netanyahu
March 28, 2020
A general view of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum in Abu Dhabi.(Reuters)
UAE museums offer virtual voyages in history and civilisation of Arabian Peninsula
March 28, 2020
A file picture of Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. (AFP)
Abu Dhabi crown prince emphasises support of UAE for Syria in coping with pandemic
March 28, 2020
A Yemeni girl wears a protective face mask amid fears of the spread of coronavirus in Sana'a. (Reuters)
UN call for ceasefire in Yemen yet to take hold
March 27, 2020
Brenton Tarrant, charged for murder in relation to the mosque attacks, is seen in the dock during his appearance in the Christchurch District Court, New Zealand March 16, 2019 (REUTERS)
Christchurch gunman pleads guilty to attacks
March 26, 2020
A picture shows Dubai's Burj Khalifa lit up with a message "Stay Home" reminding citizens to stay home amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, on March 24. (AFP)
Dubai shuts down commercial establishments for two weeks
March 25, 2020
Lebanon's Minister of Health, Hamad Hasan and Iman Shankiti, WHO representative in Lebanon, attend a news conference, after the country's first case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed, in Beirut, Lebanon February 21, 2020. (REUTERS)
Quarantine is inevitable, warns Lebanon's Health Minister
March 25, 2020
ISIS rejoices at epidemic, an offshoot group kills 70 Nigerian soldiers
March 24, 2020
A picture taken on March 23, 2020, shows the empty King Fahd road in the Saudi capital Riyadh after authorities imposed a curfew for 21 days to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (AFP)
After spike in infections, Saudi Arabia introduces strict curfew
March 24, 2020
Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri arrives for the inaugural cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda east of capital Beirut on January 22, 2020. (AFP)
Lebanon must declare a state of emergency over coronavirus: Berri
March 24, 2020
Habib Bourguiba Avenue in downtown Tunis, virtually deserted on the first day of a general lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ordered by Tunisia's president last Friday, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 22, 2020. (Reuters)
Tunisia takes measures to offset socioeconomic fallout of epidemic
March 22, 2020
Founder and director Salam Sarhan (L) and Chairman of Trustees Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris. (Mona Fayek)
British NGO pushes for treaty to ‘ban the political use of religion’
March 21, 2020
File photo of Adnan al-Zurfi, then-governor of Najaf. (AFP)
Iraq’s PM-designate faces resistance of Shia bloc
March 21, 2020
A member of Yemen’s southern separatist-dominated Security Belt Forces stands guard during a meeting of the Southern Transitional Council in Aden. (AFP)
US urges Yemen factions to implement Riyadh deal
March 21, 2020
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud attends a meeting of the Saudi cabinet. (DPA/SPA)
Saudi anti-graft campaign nabs hundreds of civil servants
March 19, 2020
Regents Park Mosque in London. (AFP)
Most mosques close in UK as country moves towards shut down
March 19, 2020
Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Tehran since 2016, holds his daughter Gabriella during a news conference in London, on October 11, 2019. (AFP)
Zaghari-Ratcliffe temporarily released from prison over coronavirus fears
March 18, 2020