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Biden hails Lebanon ceasefire deal as 'good news'

Under the agreement, 'what is left of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations will not be allowed... to threaten the security of Israel again,' Biden says

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Analysis

Tom Barrack, Trump's pick for Turkey ambassador, is good news for Erdogan

CEO of Colony Capital Tom Barrack speaks on the last day of the Republican National Convention, on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ezgi Akin

In Ankara, reporting on diplomacy, EU-Turkey ties, NATO

Trump’s AI Gaza video elicits mockery from Middle East social media users

Truth Social. Photo collage created by Al-Monitor.

Palestinians absent from Israeli news coverage of Gaza war

(FILES) An Israeli right-wing activist holds up an Israeli national flag to obscure the camera of a video journalist during the Jerusalem Day flag march

Agence France-Presse

German news agency DPA says photographer killed near Syria's Hama

A mourner kneels by the graveside of award-winning Syrian photographer Anas Alkharboutli following his funeral in the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib.

Agence France-Presse

Iran 'news' sites, hackers target Trump ahead of US election

Former president Donald Trump is running against Vice President Kamala Harris in November's US election battle

Agence France-Presse

Egypt to launch regional news channel

Egyptian prime minister with TV presenter

‘A huge crime’: Archive of Lebanon's news agency since 1961 is 'stolen'

A woman on September 15, 2022, visits an exhibition titled 'Allo, Beirut?', that shows archives of Lebanon's troubled past fused with artistic depictions of a grim present, at the capital's Beit Beirut heritage-house-turned-museum. - Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from before Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war tell the story of government corruption, public sector strikes and student protest movements.(Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)

New Egyptian regional news channel hampered by lack of funds

A picture taken on May 7, 2019, shows billboards advertising "Watch iT," Egypt's first video-streaming app, in Cairo.

Fars News proposes joint reporting by Iran, Russia

Media personnel wait to attend a press conference of Argentina's goalkeeper's Agustin Orion and Mariano Andujar at their base camp in Vespasiano, near Belo Horizonte, on June 18, 2014, ahead their 2014 FIFA World Cup Group F football match against Iran, to be held at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte on June 21, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Juan Mabromata