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Lebanon Devalues, Still Leaves Pound Far Away From Black Market 01 Feb 2023 - 02:20 pm
People gather outside a fortified Credit Libanais Bank in Chtaura, Lebanon, January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Turkish base in northern Iraq hit by rocket fire: Kurds 01 Feb 2023 - 02:03 pm
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Lebanon to devalue currency by 90% on Feb. 1, says central bank chief 31 Jan 2023 - 08:31 pm
A man counts Lebanese pound banknotes at an exchange shop in Beirut, Lebanon, January 11, 2023. (REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)
Blinken voices sorrow for 'innocent' Palestinians killed 31 Jan 2023 - 06:36 pm
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (right) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands following their meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on January 31, 2023. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / POOL / AFP)
11 dead in Syria drone strikes - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights 30 Jan 2023 - 07:13 pm
Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces walks past a house during a raid against suspected Islamic State group fighters in Raqa, the jihadist group's former defacto capital in Syria, on January 29, 2023. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
Iran summons Ukraine envoy over top aide's drone strike remarks 30 Jan 2023 - 05:53 pm
This image grab taken from a UGC video posted on January 29, 2023, reportedly shows an explosion in Iran's Isfahan province. (Photo by UGC / AFP) 
Adani gets backing as UAE royals buy $400 million in share sale 30 Jan 2023 - 05:49 pm
Travellers stand near a billboard of Adani Capital at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport in Ahmedabad on January 30, 2023. (Photo by Sam PANTHAKY / AFP)
Blinken reaffirms two-state solution as he lands in Israel 30 Jan 2023 - 04:54 pm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarks from his plane upon arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on January 30, 2023. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/Pool via REUTERS)
Fight climate change without slowing growth, says UAE's COP28 chief 30 Jan 2023 - 04:41 pm
United Arab Emirates' Industry Minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber speaks during the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 31, 2022. (REUTERS/Amr Alfiky)
Blinken says US will keep pressing Egypt on human rights 30 Jan 2023 - 04:25 pm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at the airport in Cairo on January 30, 2023, at the end of the Egyptian leg of his Middle East tour. - Washington's top diplomat, after meeting President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the country's foreign minister, left Egypt headed for Israel and the Palestinian territories. KHALED DESOUKI/Pool via REUTERS
Volatile situations in Palestinian territories cast grim shadows on Blinken’s tour to Middle East 30 Jan 2023 - 07:47 am
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Iran condemns 'cowardly' drone attack on defence site 29 Jan 2023 - 07:44 pm
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with his Qatari counterpart in the capital Tehran, on January 29, 2023. (Photo by Aatta Kenare / AFP)
Iranian military factory hit by drone attack 29 Jan 2023 - 05:32 pm
Members of the Iranian Army take part in a military exercise in Isfahan on September 8, 2022. [File: Handout/WANA via Reuters]
Lebanon's top Christian cleric says judge probing port blast must be allowed to pursue truth 29 Jan 2023 - 05:08 pm
Lebanese demonstrators lift placards demanding top prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat be discharged and held accountable for the 2020 port blast, during a rally in the capital Beirut on January 28, 2023. - The judge leading the investigation into the deadly 2020 port explosion, charged on January 22 several powerful figures, including Oueidat, over the blast, reviving a probe that was suspended for over a year amid vehement political and legal pushback. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Blinken begins Middle East trip amid spate of violence 29 Jan 2023 - 04:30 pm
File Photo: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada at the State Department in Washington, US, January 11, 2023. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
Azerbaijan to evacuate embassy in Iran on Sunday after fatal shooting 29 Jan 2023 - 12:34 pm
Police stay guard in front of the Azerbaijan embassy in Tehran on January 27, 2023, following an attack. File Photo: AFP
Woman accused of murdering Saudi national in US arrested: Embassy  28 Jan 2023 - 02:24 pm
File Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
BBC Arabic Radio goes off air after 85 years 28 Jan 2023 - 10:23 am
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Asia

Police officials transfer the remains of a student, killed in a building collapse at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school, to a morgue at the Bhayangkara hospital in Surabaya, East Java province on October 4, 2025. (Photo by Juni KRISWANTO / AFP) Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17, dozens still missing
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4, 2025. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon / POOL / AFP) China hawk Takaichi set to be Japan's first woman PM
Image for representation One dead, one missing in Japan after bear attack
Peninsula New direct flight route links China's Shenzhen with Indonesia's Manado

Europe

Petr Fiala, Czech Prime Minster and Leader of Czech Republic's Civic Party (ODS) and Together (SPOLU) coalition speaks at the coalition headquarters in Prague on October 4, 2025 after the parliamentary elections. (Photo by MILAN KAMMERMAYER / AFP) Czech billionaire ex-PM's party tops parliamentary vote
This handout photograph, taken and released by the press service of Ukrainian Railways on October 4, 2025, shows a burning train carriage following a drone attack in Shostka, Sumy region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.(Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN RAILWAYS / AFP) Ukraine says Russia intensifying railway strikes to cut off civilians near front
This handout picture taken and released by The Finnish Border Guard on March 2, 2025 shows the Border Guard ship Turva (front) escorting Cook Islands registered oil tanker Eagle S out to sea near Porvoo (Borga), Finland. Photo by Handout / various sources / AFP Finnish court throws out Eagle S cable damage case for lack of jurisdiction
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march during the protest on the Milan's highway against the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, on October 3, 2025. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP) Protests, strikes across Italy for Gaza flotilla

Africa

Peninsula WFP slashes emergency food aid to Somalia by two-thirds amid severe funding shortfall
Residents sit in a pool of water due to the flooding of the Nile river in the Sudanese village of Wad Ramli north of Khartoum on October 1, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP) Sudan's capital confronts Nile's wrath in record flood
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File photo for representational purposes only. Ghana raises cocoa prices following Ivory Coast hike

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Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs, H E Dr. Ahmed bin Mohamed Al-Sayed and Secretary of State for Economy of the Portuguese Republic, H E João Rui Ferreira with other officials.

Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs co-chairs second session of Qatari–Portuguese Joint Committee