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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

Analysis

Despite hopes of Trump's envoy, Lebanon-Israel normalization deemed unrealistic

A vehicle drives past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes during the latest war, near the border wall in the southern Lebanese village of Ramia on March 5, 2025. Lebanese official media said two people were wounded on March 5 when Israeli drones attacked a vehicle in the south, a day after a deadly raid and despite a November 27 ceasefire. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Dario Sabaghi

By Dario Sabaghi

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.

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

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.

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

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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