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What is the UAE's involvement in war-torn Sudan?

Displaced Sudanese children at a camp near the town of Tawila in North Darfur on February 11, 2025

Agence France-Presse

Iran’s case against the BBC over killed teenage girl: What we know

A female protester holds up photographs of Mahsa Amini before cutting her hair with scissors as an act of solidarity with women in Iran during a demonstration against the death Amini on Sep. 23, 2022, in Berlin, Germany.

2022 in review: Lebanon in paralysis, fails ten times to elect President

Lebanon parliament

Iranian rapper Toomaj sentenced to death over protest support

Image of Toomaj Salehi.

Interest payments top education, healthcare in Ankara’s 2022 budget

Turkey economy

Analysis

Lebanon faces IMF test as new cabinet prioritizes economy, reconstruction

TOPSHOT - UNIFIL vehicles drive past the rubble of destroyed buildings in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun near the border with Israel on February 19, 2025. Israeli forces withdrew from a series of border villages including southeast Lebanon's Odaisseh, Kfar Kila, Mais al-Jabal, Markaba and Hula under an extended ceasefire deadline that expired on February 18, but remained in five points near the border. (Photo by Fadel ITANI / AFP) (Photo by FADEL ITANI/AFP via Getty Images)

Samuel Wendel

By Samuel Wendel

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

Saudi Arabia's PIF bans PwC advisory, consulting services: What to know

The PricewaterhouseCoopers offices are pictured on Oct. 2, 2018, in London, England.

Mother of jailed UK-Egyptian hospitalised amid hunger strike

Laila Soueif has been on a hunger strike to demand her son's release from an Egyptian jail since September 29, 2024

Agence France-Presse

Analysis

2022 in review: Saudi-China, Qatar-Germany deals cap Middle East's energy developments

Sunset shot showing a row of electricity pylons in the desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Getty Images)

Adam Lucente

By Adam Lucente

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

UAE main destination for smuggled African gold, report claims

LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images

United Arab Emirates