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The NBA's in-season tournament is being rebranded as the Emirates NBA Cup.

U.S. Middle East envoy Brett McGurk will travel to the region this week for continued talks on securing the release of hostages held by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, a senior Biden administration official said on Tuesday.

Turkish authorities have detained six people suspected of spying on Uyghurs in Turkey for China's intelligence service, and another suspect was being sought by police, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that revenues from the Suez Canal had "decreased by 40 to 50 percent" so far this year due to attacks on shipping by Yemen's Houthis.

The trial of four Egyptian security agents accused of kidnapping and murdering an Italian student in Cairo resumed on Tuesday after a prolonged delay following questions over the legality of proceedings.

Saudi news website Elaph reported citing unnamed sources that Israel has information that estimates Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, his brother Mohammed and other senior members of the Hamas leadership managed to escape through the tunnels between Rafah in Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula.

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was allocating $100 million to support poorly funded humanitarian crises in seven countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and Syria.

Hungary's ruling Fidesz party proposed on Tuesday that parliament should vote to ratify Sweden's bid to join NATO on Feb. 26, a move that it would support.

Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims' data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation, the gang and U.S. and UK authorities said on Monday

Prince William called on Tuesday for an end to the fighting in Gaza, saying too many people had been killed, in an usually direct intervention for a member of the British royal family.

Two drones followed a merchant vessel in the Red Sea, west of Saudi Arabia's Jizan, in a suspicious approach, but the ship continued its journey safely, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Monday.

Eleven Ukrainian children were set to depart Russia for Ukraine on Monday to reunite with their families, in a new transfer facilitated with Qatar's mediation.