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 The European Union pledged more than 2 billion euros ($2.17 billion) to support Syrian refugees across the region.

The annual Arab Media Forum launched in Dubai on Monday, kicking off a three-day summit that brings together media leaders and executives from across the region.

The Bank of Israel held interest rates steady on Monday for the third straight meeting following the re-emergence of price pressures.

Several dozen Tunisian journalists protested on Monday in Tunis against the "repression" of freedoms in the country and called for the release of two commentators they say were convicted for their opinions.

Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber addressed the country’s new parliament Monday in his first public speech since last week’s helicopter crash that killed his predecessor and seven others.

The international community is abandoning Syrian refugees as funding to support them in host countries dwindles, Jordan's foreign minister said on Monday ahead of an EU-led donor conference over the 13-year-old war.

The European Union agreed in principle on Monday to revive an EU civilian mission at Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip next to Egypt, but said it would need accords from all sides to press ahead, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.

The Saudi logistics sector is poised for growth with DP World’s investment of SR900 million ($250 million) to build a distribution center at the Jeddah Islamic Port.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced punitive measures against Spain following its recognition of a Palestinian state. 

South Africans will vote on Wednesday with widespread anger over power cuts, joblessness and corruption threatening to end the dominance of the African National Congress, thirty years after Nelson Mandela led it into power.

Ten people died and 39 others were injured in southern Turkey on Sunday when an intercity bus collided with three other vehicles on a main highway, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent a telegram to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, expressing his condolences after the death of Nasrallah's mother, reported the official National News Agency (NNA).