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Arab News says Demonstrators blocked roads across parts of Lebanon on Monday in protest at the country’s economic meltdown.

France24 says Morocco has decided to suspend flights to and from France, where daily coronavirus infections are rising, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Arab News says The Arab coalition in Yemen said on Tuesday it had killed over 130 Houthis in the past 24 hours in strikes in and near the northern pro-government bastion of Marib.

Arab News says An Israeli court upheld a ruling to return to Italy a boy, the sole survivor of an Italian cable car disaster who was kidnapped to Israel by his grandfather.

Arab News says a Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran was free in open water Wednesday, ending the latest maritime confrontation involving Tehran.

Arab News says Saudi Arabia joined a torrent of global condemnation on Sunday after an attempt to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi.

Arab News says Benjamin Netanyahu watched from the sidelines Thursday as the government dealt a major blow to his hopes of a swift return to the country’s top office.

Arab News says the United Arab Emirates has approved for emergency use the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11, the health ministry said.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum on Thursday introduced a resolution condemning Israeli authorities for labelling six human rights organizations as “terrorist groups.”

Arab News says the Iran-backed Houthis have raided homes in Abedia district, south of Marib district, abducting dozens of civilians.

Arab News says Lebanon woke to news of one of the bleakest moments brought on by the country’s energy crisis, after the smashed-up body of a female Ethiopian worker was found.

Arab News says Tarek Bitar, the judge leading the investigation into the August 2020 port explosion, resumed investigations on Tuesday.

Arab News says the Arab coalition supporting Yemen’s government said it had killed at least 165 Iran-backed Houthi militia fighters in strikes south of the battleground city of Marib.

Aljazeera says Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended flights to Kabul after what it called heavy-handed interference by Taliban authorities.

Arab News says an Israeli airstrike in central Syria killed one Syrian soldier and three pro-Iranian fighters on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

Arab News says at least six people were killed and five injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber targeted the governor of the southern Yemen city of Aden.

Arab News says thousands of marchers took to the streets of Tunisia on Sunday in demonstrations of support for President Kais Saied’s drive to rid the country of corrupt politicians.

Arab News says the Middle East’s first World Expo kicked off in Dubai on Thursday night, with organizers dubbing the showpiece “the event of the century.”

Arab News says a new poll has found that nearly 80 per cent of Palestinians want President Mahmoud Abbas to resign.

Arab News says at least 80 Iran-backed Houthi militia fighters have been killed in two days of fierce fighting with government troops.

TRT World says hailing from around the country, 37 female firefighters have gone through intensive psychological and physical training to become ready to join their male peers in Istanbul.

A delegation of high-ranking Lebanese ministers visited Damascus Saturday for talks on importing energy via Syria, the first such official visit since its civil war broke out 10 years ago.

Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis say the rebels fired three ballistic missiles at cities in the kingdom’s east and south

Sixty-five members of the Iran-backed Houthi militia and pro-government forces have been killed in renewed fighting for the strategic Yemeni city of Marib.

With electricity becoming a scarce commodity, thousands of well-off Lebanese rush to alternative energy.