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2022 in review: Iran's Khamenei faces unprecedented challenge with protests, economic woes

Demonstrators, some hold banners with the image of Mahsa Amini, march by the federal chancellery in solidarity with protesters in Iran on October 15, 2022 in Berlin, Germany.(Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images)

UK investment minister: GCC trade deal would develop AI, fintech sectors

UK investment minister Dominic Johnson in Kuwait

Lavrov in Turkey, praises Trump as Ankara offers to host Russia-Ukraine talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on Feb. 24, 2025.

Stiff and guarded: US and Russia face off in Saudi talks

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov at the start of the Riyadh meeting

Agence France-Presse

Egypt celebrates first royal tomb discovery since 1922: What we know

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Egypt keeps interest rates unchanged to start 2023

A peddler sells roasted corn cobs by the medieval Sultan al-Ghuri Complex in the Azhar district of Cairo.

Attempted murder trial of Rushdie assailant opens

Salman Rushdie, 77, lost sight in his right eye after he was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant in August 2022

Agence France-Presse

Egypt remittances plunge amid economic uncertainty

KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

In China, Syria's Assad gets political fanfare, but no funding commitments

From the official reception for President Bashar al-Assad and Mrs. Asma in Hangzhou International Airport on September 21, 2023

Analysis

One year on, Algeria-Spain blockade shows little sign of easing

Activists for the independence of the Western Sahara wave flags and banners reading "Sahara: Only Pace!" during an annual protest organised by the state coordinator of associations of solidarity with the Sahara in Madrid on November 11, 2016 marking the 4th anniversary of the tripartite Madrid agreements demonstrators deem illegal. - The Western Sahara is a territory bordered by Morocco and Algeria and disputed by Spain and Morocco who both claiming sovereignty. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERA

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