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Qatar announces aid for Gaza amid Israel truce talks

Qatar has announced it will provide temporary support to 50,000 impoverished Gaza families as mediators attempt to broker a truce between Hamas and Israel. The Gulf state will provide $100 each to 50,000 poor families in the "next few days," a statement from Qatar's Gaza Reconstruction...

Israeli minister in Oman to push for rail link with Gulf

An Israeli minister has traveled to Oman to propose plans for a railway linking the Gulf to the Mediterranean via the Jewish state at a world transport summit Wednesday, his office said. Transport and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, who reportedly arrived in Muscat on Sunday, is to...

Iran's Zarif takes to YouTube against 'unlawful' US sanctions

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to YouTube Tuesday to dismiss U.S. sanctions and Washington's demands of change from Tehran as "absurd, unlawful and fundamentally flawed." "The U.S. administration appears to believe that imposing draconian sanctions on Iran will bring...