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India will discuss with security agencies IndiGo's codeshare and leasing pacts with Turkish Airlines and decide on further action, its civil aviation minister said on Friday.

The U.S. has more sanctions in store for Cuba, the U.S. top diplomat in Havana said on Friday, just days after the U.S. punished several Cuban judicial officials for their roles in jailing political dissidents on the island nation.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have crossed a critical threshold in their campaign against Hamas: more than 50% of Gaza is now under Israeli control. 

The Trump administration issued orders on Friday that it said would effectively lift sanctions on Syria, after President Donald Trump this month pledged to unwind the measures to help the country rebuild after a devastating civil war.

Russia is nearing the final stages of a major energy agreement with Bahrain that would see Moscow supply 1.5 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually to the Gulf kingdom over a three-year period, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

Franco-Tunisian citizen Onsi Abichou, imprisoned in Tunisia for alleged drug trafficking, has vowed to stop eating to protest what he calls a “flagrant miscarriage of justice,” his lawyers said Friday.

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral, and it will not be involved.

Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, said on Friday he has assumed the role of special envoy to Syria, as the Trump administration moves to lift sanctions on the country.

Russia and Ukraine each released 390 prisoners on Friday and said they would free more in the coming days, in what is expected to be the biggest prisoner swap of the war so far.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the leaders of France, Britain and Canada of wanting to help the Palestinian militant group Hamas after they threatened to take "concrete action" if Israel did not stop its latest offensive in Gaza.

The United Arab Emirates registered its highest temperature ever recorded in May on Friday, according to the country’s National Center of Meteorology (NCM).

This week’s joint declaration by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, vowing to prevent attacks on Israel from Lebanese soil and disarm rogue factions operating within Lebanon, may be more than just another political statement.