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Saudi Arabia said to resume talks with Iran-backed Houthis as truce falters

Iran admits to under-reporting coronavirus figures as it faces biggest crisis since 1979

Pandemic disruptions spark fears of food shortages in Arab world

Cairo shootout stokes fears of terrorist attacks ahead of Ramadan

Economy

Rating agencies take closer look at Saudi banks

Society

Tunisian women, members of the Tunisian “Ena Zeda” (“Me, too Movement.”) carry placards and chant slogans as they rally against sexual harrassment, in Tunis, last November. (AFP)

Alarm mounts about violence against women in conditions of confinement

A cook prepares food for a family under lockdown in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (AFP)

Iraq’s informal labour hardest hit by coronavirus lockdown

News & Analysis

After initial incidents, burial of pandemic victims taking place uneventfully

Turkish involvement gives military boost to GNA in Libya’s west

Tunisia’s president disavows Tunisian defence minister who called GNA forces ‘militias’

Israeli president asks parliament to choose prime minister

UAE-WHO initiative dispatches aid to Somalia