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A fire that ravaged a Covid-19 hospital in the Iraqi capital killed 58 people and sparked angry calls for the sacking of officials, in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure.

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.”

Egypt is aiming for tourism revenues of $6 billion-$7 billion in 2021, the deputy tourism minister told Reuters.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have made important gains in the battle for the government’s last northern stronghold, advancing close to the centre of Marib city despite heavy casualties, military sources said … Read More

US President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as … Read More

Rebels in northern Chad are ready to observe a ceasefire and to discuss a political settlement after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby last week, a rebel spokesman said … Read More

The wanted brother of Lebanese pop singer and wanted fugitive Fadl Shaker surrendered to the Lebanese Army outside a Palestinian refugee camp

Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Sunday it had attacked and hit a military air base in southern Saudi Arabia with a drone, but the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group said … Read More

At least 65 fighters have been killed over the past two days as Yemen’s Huthi rebels make gains in the battle for Marib, advancing towards the city centre, military sources … Read More

Syria’s oil ministry said firefighters on Saturday put out a fire on an oil tanker off the Baniyas refinery after a suspected attack by a drone coming from the direction … Read More