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Turkey summoned Ukraine's ambassador in Ankara after this week's attacks on a Turkish ship and a second vessel sent to tow it in the Black Sea, Turkey's foreign ministry announced Saturday.

Lebanon's Civil Defence issued a statement Saturday warning against "the risks associated with swimming and all types of water activities and sports along the coastline, from Abdeh (Akkar, far north) to Naqoura in the south, today and tomorrow Sunday." 

Sustained gunfire and explosions rang out early Saturday across several areas of Niger's capital, including the airport and near the presidency, in what four sources described as an attack by mutinous soldiers.

A Turkish comedian was rearrested Friday on new charges shortly after a court ordered his release from a case in which he had been prosecuted since July for insulting Islam and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish media reported.

Iranian leaders are acknowledging the economic toll of war with the U.S., with the supreme leader urging the government to address the hardship and the president saying foreign trade has shrunk by a third due to the American sanctions and blockade.

Spain asked on Friday for help from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in processing migrants in the North African enclave of Ceuta almost a month after tens of thousands rushed across the border from Morocco. 

The U.S. imposed Iran-related sanctions on an Egyptian bank on Friday, part of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's campaign to increase economic pressure to try to break a stalemate six months into Washington's war with Iran.

Finland’s decision this week is not a footnote. It is another crack in the fiction that UNRWA is a neutral humanitarian agency rather than a politically captured machine that has, for decades, blurred the line between refugee aid and the infrastructure of Palestinian rejectionism.

Major General Staff Saleh Mohammed bin Mejren Al Ameri, Commander of the UAE's National Guard, visited Jordan's Gendarmerie and Civil Defence forces as part of his official visit to the Hashemite Kingdom.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed the former commander of a now-dissolved Kurdish-led fighting force as a presidential adviser on Friday, reflecting a rapprochement between the two long-time civil war adversaries.

Pakistan and Kuwait signed a defense cooperation protocol Thursday aimed at "significantly strengthening" their military ties, Pakistan's defense ministry said.

Mediators in the Iran war are stepping up efforts to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, with Tehran agreeing to draw up a list of conditions to restore normal traffic after a Qatari emissary pressed the Iranians to respect freedom of navigation.