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Turkey arrests 11 suspects over migrant smuggling

Turkish police arrested at least 11 suspects in the country's northwestern provinces as part of an investigation into the smuggling of 117 illegal migrants, a security source said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Acting on a tip-off, security teams conducted simultaneous operations in the...

Hamas decries Morocco-Israel normalization of ties

Palestinian group Hamas on Wednesday condemned the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel. "We condemn the signing of the normalization agreement between Morocco and the [Israeli] occupation, and we consider it a great disappointment to the Palestinian people and their...

US regrets Lebanon-Israel stalemate, offers mediation

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday voiced regret over a stalemate in maritime border talks between Israel and Lebanon and offered Washington's meditation. The two nations which remain technically at war opened negotiations in October after quiet US diplomacy, seeking to clear the...

Iraq inks preliminary deal for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Iraq has signed a preliminary deal to receive 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in early 2021, the health ministry said. The country has been among the hardest-hit in the Middle East, with more than 580,000 reported cases although numbers have dropped dramatically...