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Lebanon’s outgoing PM blasts president’s party over delays 17 Nov 2019 - 04:55 pm
FILE PHOTO: PM Saad Hariri hands President Michel Aoun resignation at the Baabda presidential palace Beirut on October 29, 2019 bowing to nearly two weeks of unprecedented nationwide protests. AFP / Dalati And Nohra handout
Algerian protesters attack 'garbage' presidential campaign 17 Nov 2019 - 04:55 pm
A supporters of Abdelkader Bengrina, former Algerian tourism minister and presidential candidate for the El-Bina (Construction) Islamist party, applauds outside his electoral campaign headquarters in the capital Algiers on November 17, 2019. AFP / Ryad Kr
40 arrested during protests in Iran's Yazd: news agency 17 Nov 2019 - 11:40 am
 Demonstrators block main streets of Tehran during a demonstration against a government decision to hike petrol prices, in Tehran, Iran on November 16, 2019.  Fatemeh Bahrami - Anadolu
Electronic music festival rocks Tunisian desert 17 Nov 2019 - 10:57 am
People dance at the electronic music festival
Israeli army arrests Lebanese man who jumps border fence 16 Nov 2019 - 06:04 pm
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One dead as petrol protests spread in Iran 16 Nov 2019 - 03:41 pm
People protest against increased gas price, on a highway in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Protesters retake part of bridge in central Baghdad 16 Nov 2019 - 03:28 pm
Iraqi demonstrators smash concrete walls at Sinak Bridge during the ongoing anti-government protests, in Baghdad, Iraq November 16, 2019. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili
Iraq closes southern border with Iran to travellers 16 Nov 2019 - 02:32 pm
Iraqis gather at the site of a bomb explosion near Baghdad's Tahrir Square on November 16, 2019.   AFP / SABAH ARAR
Car bomb kills 14 in northern Syria: monitor 16 Nov 2019 - 02:28 pm
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Erdogan says he returned Trump's threatening letter 14 Nov 2019 - 09:34 am
President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with members of the Turkish and Muslim community in the U.S, at the Diyanet Center of America in Maryland, Washington, United States on November 13, 2019. ( Tayfun Co?kun - Anadol
Tenuous calm in Gaza as Islamic Jihad says truce reached with Israel 14 Nov 2019 - 09:11 am
Israeli missile launched from the Iron Dome defence missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is seen above Gaza city on November 13, 2019. / AFP / MAHMUD HAMS
Erdogan arrives at White House for meetings with Trump 13 Nov 2019 - 08:55 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand with Turkey's Pressident Tayyip Erdogan and Emine Erdogan upon their arrival at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2019. (REUTERS/Tom Brenner)
Lebanon: one month of protests 13 Nov 2019 - 05:29 pm
Lebanese demonstrators try to remove the barbed-wire and metal rail, placed by anti-riot police, on the road leading to the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on the eastern outskirts of Beirut on November 13, 2019, nearly a month into an unprecedented anti-g
In Lebanon's Tripoli, crushing poverty fuels protests 13 Nov 2019 - 04:42 pm
A Lebanese child walks past scrap metal for recycling at an impoverished neighbourhood in al-Mani area of the port city of Tripoli, north of Beirut, on November 7, 2019. AFP / JOSEPH EID
Turkish police arrest journalist Altan a week after his release 13 Nov 2019 - 09:51 am
Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan (C) walks with Turkish police as his daughter Senem Altan (R) tries to say him goodbye as he is detained on November 12, 2019, at Kadikoy neighbourhood in Istanbul./ AFP / BULENT KILIC
Man killed as protests sweep Lebanon after Aoun interview 13 Nov 2019 - 09:13 am
Lebanese anti-government protesters burn tires as they block the main highway linking the city of Tripoli to Beirut at the coastal city of Byblos, north of the capital on November 13, 2019.  / AFP / Joseph EID
"YOU? Really?": Iran's Zarif scorns EU warning over nuclear deal 12 Nov 2019 - 12:00 pm
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a news conference, a day ahead of the first meeting of the new Syrian Constitutional Committee at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, October 29, 2019. Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Lebanese banks closed due to strike: Union head 12 Nov 2019 - 10:12 am
A picture taken on on November 11, 2019, shows an ATM which has been sealed by Lebanese anti-government protesters in the capital Beirut during a rally against the banking system. AFP / Patrick Baz