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In June 2017, Saudi Arabia - along with its allies UAE, Bahrain and Egypt - cut off diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar and imposed a land, sea and air embargo on the Gulf state [File: Gabriela Maj/Bloomberg]

Saudi Arabia says allies ‘on board’ for resolution of Gulf crisis

Saudi foreign minister says kingdom in ‘full coordination with partners’ and that prospect of agreement ‘very positive’.

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Mourners carry the body of Palestinian teenager Ali Abu Aliya during his funeral in the village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [Abbas Momani/ AFP]

EU calls for probe into Palestinian teen’s killing by Israel

Palestinians call killing ‘war crime’; EU delegation to Palestinians said Israel must investigate ‘shocking incident’.

Abdalla Hamdok, left, shakes hands with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan after being sworn in as prime minister on August 21, 2019 [File: Marwan Ali/EPA-EFE]

Sudan gov’t rejects ruling council head’s move creating new body

Russian medical worker, right, administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia [Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo]

Moscow starts mass vaccination amid record COVID-19 cases

Zimbabwean lawyer Tendai Biti, 53, was freed on $10,000 bail after a night behind bars [File: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo]

Zimbabwe opposition VP released on bail in assault case

Diaw was second-in-command of the military government that took power after a coup in August [File: Michelle Cattani/AFP]

Military officer elected head of Mali’s interim legislature

The US has announced that it will withdraw almost all of its roughly 700 troops in Somalia by January 15 [Senior Airman Kristin Savage/Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa via AP]

US troop withdrawal dismays some Somalis

On Thursday, Iran said it exceeded one million coronavirus cases [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Iran extends restrictions as COVID-19 death toll passes 50,000

Jewish settlements on Palestinian land captured by Israel in 1967 have long been a stumbling block in the peace process [File: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Bahrain says it will not allow imports from Israeli settlements

According to the Bangkok Post, the Department of Corrections currently has 247,557 convicts who qualify for sentence reductions out of a total of 344,161 inmates [File: Narong Sangnak/EPA]

Thai king pardons, issues amnesty to tens of thousands in prison


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Mourners carry the body of Palestinian teenager Ali Abu Aliya during his funeral in the village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [Abbas Momani/ AFP]

EU calls for probe into Palestinian teen’s killing by Israel

Abdalla Hamdok, left, shakes hands with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan after being sworn in as prime minister on August 21, 2019 [File: Marwan Ali/EPA-EFE]

Sudan gov’t rejects ruling council head’s move creating new body

Russian medical worker, right, administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia [Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo]

Moscow starts mass vaccination amid record COVID-19 cases

Zimbabwean lawyer Tendai Biti, 53, was freed on $10,000 bail after a night behind bars [File: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo]

Zimbabwe opposition VP released on bail in assault case

Diaw was second-in-command of the military government that took power after a coup in August [File: Michelle Cattani/AFP]

Military officer elected head of Mali’s interim legislature

The US has announced that it will withdraw almost all of its roughly 700 troops in Somalia by January 15 [Senior Airman Kristin Savage/Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa via AP]

US troop withdrawal dismays some Somalis

On Thursday, Iran said it exceeded one million coronavirus cases [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Iran extends restrictions as COVID-19 death toll passes 50,000

Jewish settlements on Palestinian land captured by Israel in 1967 have long been a stumbling block in the peace process [File: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Bahrain says it will not allow imports from Israeli settlements

According to the Bangkok Post, the Department of Corrections currently has 247,557 convicts who qualify for sentence reductions out of a total of 344,161 inmates [File: Narong Sangnak/EPA]

Thai king pardons, issues amnesty to tens of thousands in prison

US gov’t using ‘unlawful’ plans to decide asylum, documents show

Judge accuses US government of failing to throw out ‘unlawful’ asylum claim directives, court transcript shows.

A group of immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala seeking asylum stand in line at the bus station after they were processed and released by US Customs and Border Protection in Texas [File: Eric Gay/AP Photo]
FILE PHOTO: A St John’s Ambulance volunteer holds a syringe during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinator training course at the Princess Anne Training Centre in Derby, Britain November 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith/File Photo

Coronavirus pandemic

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On Thursday, Iran said it exceeded one million coronavirus cases [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Iran extends restrictions as COVID-19 death toll passes 50,000

Jewish settlements on Palestinian land captured by Israel in 1967 have long been a stumbling block in the peace process [File: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Bahrain says it will not allow imports from Israeli settlements

Russian medical worker, right, administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia [Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo]

COVID-19: Moscow starts mass vaccination amid record cases

Nearly 65 million people globally have been infected by COVID-19 [Remo Casilli/Reuters]

COVID-19: Restrictions, lockdowns return as deaths reach 1.5m

US President-elect Joe Biden has set up a COVID-19 task force to try to stem the spread of the deadly virus [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]

Biden asks Fauci to join COVID-19 team, stresses need for masks

More than 180 countries have joined Covax, a global collaboration working with manufacturers to distribute vaccines equitably [File:Susana Vera/Reuters]

COVID-19 fallout for ‘decades to come’: UN chief

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Kuwait holds election amid economy woes, COVID-19 spread

The Gulf state is holding parliamentary elections on Saturday amid a liquidity crisis and the spread of COVID-19.

A Kuwaiti woman casts her vote at a polling [Stephanie McGehee/Reuters]

Likely fake accounts propel China tweet that enraged Australia

Some of the accounts had already been identified in a data-set of 37,000 Chinese accounts targeting Australia.

The Israeli cybersecurity firm Cyabra said it had found 57.5 percent of accounts that engaged with Zhao Lijian's tweet were fake [File: Sascha Steinbach/EPA]

Johnson, EU chief to hold emergency call as Brexit talks falter

Impasse centred on French demands about fishing rights in British waters but EU denies asking for more concessions.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to speak on Saturday to try to break the impasse [File: Simon Dawson/EPA]

UN says Tigray fighting hampers aid delivery despite deal

Fighting is ongoing ‘in many parts’ of Tigray, complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid the UN says.

More than 45,000 people have escaped from northern Ethiopia into Sudan since November 4 [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP]

Several killed in coal mine accident in China’s Chongqing

Dead were among 24 people trapped underground by excessive levels of carbon monoxide gas at Diaoshuidong coal mine.

Diaoshuidong, built in 1975 and run since 1998 as a private enterprise, is a high-gas mine with annual capacity of 120,000 tonnes of coal, Xinhua said [CCTV Screengrab via Reuters]

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