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Gulf

This file photo taken on August 11, 2019 shows Muslim pilgrims performing the "Tawaf al-Ifada", a mandatory circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia suspends pilgrimages over coronavirus fears

Health

Kuwaiti women wear protective masks as they sit in a restaurant inside the Mubarakiya Market in Kuwait City on February 24. (AP)

MENA braces for coronavirus threat

Gulf

A traveller wears a mask at the Dubai International Airport, after the UAE's Ministry of Health and Community Prevention confirmed the country's first case of coronavirus, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 29. (Reuters)

GCC states take additional precautions as virus spreads

Libya

A large billboard shows the face of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fading into the flag of the Islamic State group in the coastal city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, February 14. (AFP)

Libyans should not let mercenaries and foreign fighters destroy their country

UAE

Co-founders of Dubai-based Letswork Omar al-Mheiri (L) and Hamza Khan. (Letswork)

Letswork redefines concept of co-working space in the UAE

Algeria

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune speaks at a news conference in Algiers, last December. (Reuters)

Algeria expels manager of Qatar-owned company, signalling strained relations with Doha

Iran

A medical team checks on travellers at the Shalamjah border crossing, some 15 kms southeast of the city of Basra, upon their return from Iran on February 21. (AFP)

Iran reports 5 deaths among 28 cases of coronavirus, Lebanon its first case

UAE

he Barakah plant is situated on the Emirates coast, separated from Iran by the troubled Gulf waters

UAE issues 'historic' nuclear power plant licence

UAE

Saudi women wearing special protective glasses monitor the annular solar eclipse on Jabal Arba (Four Mountains) in Hofuf, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, December 26, 2019. (Reuters)

Ivanka Trump lauds progress in UAE, Saudi Arabia on women's rights