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Arab News says a surprise ruling by Iraq’s high court cast doubt on the legal foundations of the independent oil policy of Iraq’s Kurdish-run region.

Arab News says Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian teen in West Bank clashes during what Israel described as an operation to demolish the home of a “terrorist”.

Arab News says Twelve civilians were injured by a drone attack targeting Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport on Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

The Independent says a husband paraded the decapitated head of his 17-year-old wife in front of a crowd in Iran after murdering her in a harrowing incident which has triggered outrage.

Arab News says Joe Biden said on Thursday a global “terrorist threat” was removed when the head of the Daesh group blew himself up after US special forces swooped in on his Syrian hideout.

TRT World says Turkish authorities have recovered 12 bodies believed to be those of asylum seekers who were pushed back by Greece.

Arab News says US is sending a warship and fighter jets to help defend the UAE after a series of missile attacks by Houthi militia in Yemen.

Arab News says as the world sees vaccination slowing and infections soaring with the spread of omicron, Iran has found a rare respite from the pandemic.

Arab News says Saudi Arabia and Thailand turned a new page in their relations on Tuesday, with a restoration of full diplomatic ties and a planned exchange of ambassadors.

The Independent says Lebanon’s three-time former prime minister Saad Hariri has announced he is bowing out of politics and will not participate in May’s elections.