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Opinion

China

Security guards stand on duty at one of the temporary coronavirus hospitals in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, April 9. (AP)

Has China violated international law on the virus outbreak?

Turkey

Turkish soldiers stand guard outside a courtroom at the Silivri Prison and Courthouse complex in Silivri near Istanbul, Turkey. (Reuters)

Ankara’s ‘deal with angel of death’ seen unfair to detained critics amid coronavirus crisis

Iran

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi speaks at a press conference in Tehran. (DPA)

Despite Instex transaction, US-Iran tensions endure amid pandemic

MENA

Palestinian employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), wearing surgical masks and gloves, divide food aid rations and place them onto transport vehicles. (dpa)

Making sure the poor do not go hungry

Middle East

Health workers of government-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where most of the Lebanese coronavirus cases are treated, are saluted by Lebanese policemen. (AP)

Saluting Arab women doctors

Opinion

U.S. troops block a highway in outskirts of Baghdad after a roadside bomb attack December 7, 2003.(Reuters)

If China were sued over the pandemic, the US should be over Iraq

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Lebanon

Clients wearing protective masks line up to use ATM machines outside a closed bank in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

Nasrallah tries to pin the blame for the system’s failure on banks

Europe

Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum (R) listens to his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian during a joint press conference in the capital Algiers, last January. (AFP)

Europe needs to take North Africa more seriously

Opinion

The deserted beach of La Marsa in Tunisia as the country enters a third week of lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease, April 1. (Reuters)

Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again

Oussama Romdhani