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A second French warship has arrived in the Red Sea region as part of efforts to ensure freedom of navigation, the French army said on Thursday.

In a significant diplomatic move, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, presided over the 3rd session of the Morocco-Gambia Joint Commission on Thursday, in the symbolic location of Dakhla, within the Moroccan Sahara. His Gambian counterpart, Mamadou Tangara, was also present at the meeting.

Turkey is considering opening new border crossings with eastern neighbour Iran, President Tayyip Erdogan said late on Wednesday after talks with his Iranian counterpart, as they seek to revive sagging economic relations.

The Gaza war has put renewed focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, still seen by many countries as the path to peace even though the negotiating process has been moribund for years.

In a joint report released by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the European Union, the catastrophic flooding that struck Derna and eastern Libya in September has affected up to 1.5 million Libyans, with estimated reconstruction costs reaching $1.8 billion.

Rather than stretch out under the Caribbean sun, Mark Landsman has been spending his vacation picking tomatoes in Israel, unpaid and in striking range of Palestinian rockets.

Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus this week.

Tunisia limped out of the Africa Cup of Nations finals with a whimper after they were held to a 0-0 draw by South Africa in the sweltering heat of Korhogo on Wednesday, a result that sends their opponents into the last-16.

In a significant meeting held on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi engaged in a dialogue that underscored the critical concerns surrounding the growing tensions in the Middle East.

More than three months into the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being challenged by members of his own war cabinet about strategy, pressured by Washington over post-war Gaza plans and hemmed in by his far-right ministers.

The United States and Iraq are set to initiate talks on the end of a U.S.-led international military coalition in Iraq and how to replace it with bilateral relations, four sources said, a step forward in a process that was stalled by the Gaza war. 

Hungary's parliamentary speaker said on Thursday there was no urgency in approving Sweden's NATO membership bid after ratification by Turkey left only Budapest holding up the lengthy accession process.