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Iraq PM backs continued US troop presence 15 Jan 2023 - 06:50 pm
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani during a news conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on January 13, 2023. File Photo / Reuters
UAE pledges to invest $30bn in South Korea -Yoon's office 15 Jan 2023 - 04:31 pm
This handout image provided by the UAE Presidential court shows Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (R) meeting with South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol during a state visit at the royal palace in Abu Dhabi, on January 15, 2023. (Photo by Rashed AL-MANSOORI / UAE PRESIDENTIAL COURT / AFP)
Iran summons UK ambassador after dual national executed 14 Jan 2023 - 04:47 pm
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi meets with the new chief commander of the Iranian police force, Ahmad-Reza Radan in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2023. Presidential Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
Iran executes British-Iranian national, UK condemns 'barbaric' act 14 Jan 2023 - 01:20 pm
(Files) In this undated handout file picture provided by Khabar Online news agency shows, former Iranian deputy of defence minister, British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, during an interview in Tehran. (Photo by Khabar Online / AFP)
CIA chief in Libya after Lockerbie suspect handover 12 Jan 2023 - 08:55 pm
This combination of pictures created on January 12, 2023 shows (left to right) Libya's Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah speaking in Tunisia's capital Tunis on November 30, 2022; and CIA director William Burns speaking before introducing the US President during a visit to the agency headquarters on the 75th anniversary of its founding in Langley, Virginia, on July 8, 2022. (Photo by FETHI BELAID and Samuel Corum / AFP)
Improved Syria-Turkey ties should seek end to 'occupation': Assad 12 Jan 2023 - 08:08 pm
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (left) receiving Russia's Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and his accompanying delegation in the capital Damascus on January 12, 2023. (Photo by SANA / AFP)
Iran media claims detained British-Iranian linked to death of nuclear scientist 12 Jan 2023 - 05:47 pm
An undated handout picture provided by Khabar Online news agency shows, former Iranian deputy of defence minister, British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, during an interview in Tehran. - Iran has sentenced Akbari to death after his conviction for spying for British intelligence services, the Islamic republic's judicial news agency reported January 11, 2023. (Photo by Khabar Online / AFP)
UAE names oil chief to head COP28 climate talks 12 Jan 2023 - 04:44 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)
Saudi Arabia says seeks to use own uranium for nuclear project 11 Jan 2023 - 11:38 pm
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Amnesty International slams ban on raising Palestinian flag in 1948 lands 10 Jan 2023 - 09:48 pm
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US Navy says seizes weapons en route from Iran to Yemen 10 Jan 2023 - 04:32 pm
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Iran executes two more men in connection with protests 08 Jan 2023 - 11:33 am
Mohammad-Mehdi Karami speaks in a courtroom before being executed by hanging, along with Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, for allegedly killing a member of the security forces in Tehran, Iran December 2022 in this still image obtained from a video by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuters
UAE says it led arrest of 'most wanted' people smuggler 05 Jan 2023 - 07:23 pm
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam / Netherlands police / File photo
Iran closes French institute to protest Khamenei cartoons 05 Jan 2023 - 06:33 pm
File Photo: French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna leaves a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, October 26, 2022. (REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier)
Longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jail freed after 40 years 05 Jan 2023 - 01:01 pm
Karim Younis gestures as he is welcomed at his village in Ara, Israel January 5, 2023. Reuters/Ammar Awad
Gazans turn to firewood as energy prices soar 05 Jan 2023 - 11:33 am
A Palestinian man Samir Hejji and his son cut wood for sale, in Gaza City, December 28, 2022. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Iraqi court summons justice minister amid graft probe 04 Jan 2023 - 07:50 pm
Judge Haider Hanoun, head of the Federal Authority of Integrity, speaks to the press in Baghdad on January 3, 2023, to announce the recovery of four billion Iraqi dinars, the equivaliant of $2.6 million, reportedly part of the $2.5 billion of government funds fraudulently stolen from the tax authorities. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP)
Egyptians hit by soaring food prices as crisis bites 04 Jan 2023 - 06:26 pm
People walk past a currency exchange point, showing an image of the US dollar in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2022. File Photo / Reuters

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