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Iraq signed $1 billion worth of investment agreements with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, as the country seeks to boost its economic recovery.

Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, said Friday that Damascus is in negotiations with Israel on a possible security agreement that could see Israeli troops withdraw from areas they have occupied since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad last December.

Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on March 5, his office said late on Friday, following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country's first woman Prime Minister in the interim.

A Turkish prosecutor ordered the detention of 48 suspects, including the mayor of Istanbul's opposition-run Bayrampasa district, as part of a corruption investigation, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump held dinner with the Qatari prime minister in New York on Friday, days after U.S. ally Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly voted to endorse a declaration outlining "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians ahead of a meeting of world leaders.

Syrian security forces stormed the rundown Damascus suburb in late August, toting guns, swords and eviction orders. In their wake, they left the district's homes spray-painted with big black "X"s and "O"s: marking who could stay and who must go.

President Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio will fly to Israel this weekend amid tensions among fellow U.S. allies in the Middle East over Israel's strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar and expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Egypt and Tunisia have signed eight memoranda of understanding (MoUs) spanning multiple sectors, in a move designed to strengthen bilateral cooperation and deepen longstanding ties between the two North African nations.

The State of Qatar and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have dispatched a new humanitarian aid shipment to Syria.

President Donald Trump planned to meet the Qatari prime minister in New York on Friday, a White House official said, days after U.S. ally Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha.

Repression in North Korea has deepened across many areas, with heightened surveillance, expanded use of forced labour and more frequent executions, making it the most restrictive country in the world, a U.N. human rights report said on Friday.