Middle East Minute for July 9, 2021
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Catch up on some of this week’s biggest headlines from around the Middle East now. A container ship explodes at Dubai’s main port, Iran hosts talks between the Taliban and Afghan government, and Egypt and Sudan are furious as Ethiopia begins the next phase of filling its Nile River dam.