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Silencing the press

Turkey

Silencing the press

Turkish authorities appointed a government trustee to run pro-opposition broadcaster Halk TV, prosecutors said on Wednesday, as police raided the channel's Istanbul office in a case that has renewed concerns about media freedom in the country. 

Loud blasts near Aramco headquarters

Saudi Arabia

Loud blasts near Aramco headquarters

Loud booms were heard on Tuesday night near the headquarters of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, the world's largest and the backbone of the kingdom's economy, in Dhahran, six sources told Reuters, amid an escalating war between Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis and a Saudi-led coalition.

Hezbollah unveils aid plan for destroyed homes

Lebanon

Hezbollah unveils aid plan for destroyed homes

Lebanon's Hezbollah will provide up to $14,000 in financial assistance to families whose primary homes have been destroyed or rendered uninhabitable during this year's war with Israel, the chairman of the group's Executive Council said on Tuesday.

No room left for Egypt's Baha'i dead

Egypt

No room left for Egypt's Baha'i dead

In a Cairo cemetery shaded by palms and tangled shrubs, pale graves are packed so tightly that in some places only narrow strips of sand and broken pavement separate one family’s plot from the next.

Trump doubts China and Russia are backing Iran

Iran

Trump doubts China and Russia are backing Iran

President Donald Trump said late on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," adding that Moscow and Beijing had "too much to lose" if they enabled Tehran.

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