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At least two workers were killed in an oil pipeline fire in Iraq's Zubair oilfield on Sunday, oilfield officials said.

An Egyptian convoy of vehicles and heavy construction machinery entered the Gaza Strip overnight from Saturday to Sunday to assist in the search for the bodies of Israeli hostages killed by Hamas, according to The Times of Israel.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was confident of hashing out a deal with President Xi Jinping, whom he is expected to meet next week, after top economic officials from both countries concluded two days of discussions on Sunday to de-escalate a trade war.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said on Sunday it was withdrawing from Turkey as part of a disarmament process it is coordinating with the government, and pressed Ankara for concrete measures to move the process along.

In yet another alarming blow to press freedom, Turkish authorities have seized control of opposition television channel Tele1 and arrested its editor-in-chief, Merdan Yanardag, signaling a continued descent of Turkey into autocracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said on Sunday they had captured the army headquarters in the city of al-Fashir, the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the western Darfur region.

Israeli forces carried out a "targeted strike" on an individual in central Gaza who was planning to attack Israeli troops, Israel's military said on Saturday.

Hundreds of Tunisians marched through the capital Tunis on Saturday to protest a severe environmental crisis caused by pollution from a state chemical plant in Gabes, as protests that began there widen outside the southern city.

The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), a prominent group known for its decades-long fight for democracy and women’s rights, has been suspended by Tunisian authorities, triggering strong reactions from other civil society organizations and activists.

Catherine Connolly, a veteran lawmaker on the far left of the Irish political spectrum, was elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday in a stinging rebuke to the recently re-elected centre-right coalition.

Iran’s central bank has declared Ayandeh Bank bankrupt and transferred its assets to the state-owned Bank Melli, in a rare move within the country’s heavily sanctioned economy.

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani aboard his aircraft on Saturday during a brief stopover in the Gulf state, a White House official said.