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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in the capital Tehran, on February 16, 2020, with the portraits of Iran's (L to R) former and current Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen behind. - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani ruled out resigning and vowed to see out his term, even as he admitted he had offered to step aside twice since being elected. Speaking ahead of a general election next Friday, Rouhani also appealed to voters to turn out desp

Rouhani: US election results not important to Iran

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Dozens of Palestinian prisoners in Israel test positive for COVID-19

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Malawi to open embassy in Jerusalem

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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune meets with the visiting French Foreign Minister (unseen) in the capital Algiers on January 21, 2020. - Le Drian arrived to Algiers for a brief visit to discuss bilateral and regional issues, starting with the Libyan crisis and the Sahel. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP) (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI/AFP via Getty Images)

Algeria's president hospitalized in Germany for COVID-19

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A man refills his car at a gas station in the Saudi capital Riyadh on May 11, 2020. - Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said it had asked oil giant Aramco to make an additional voluntary output cut of one million barrels per day starting from June to support prices. The move will reduce the production of the world's biggest crude exporter to 7.5 million barrels per day, the energy ministry said in a statement cited by the official Saudi Press Agency. (Photo by RANIA SANJAR / AFP) (Photo by RANIA SANJAR/AFP via

Saudi Aramco sees massive drop in third quarter profits

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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 15: (L-R) Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Foreign Affairs Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. Witnessed by President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu signed a peace deal with the UAE and a decl

Israel's intelligence chief wants next US president to continue Abraham Accords

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A picture taken on June 25, 2019, shows the Bahraini capital Manama skyline. - Co-host the United States is holding out the prospect of $50 billion of investment to the Palestinians and their neighbours, but the Palestinian Authority is boycotting the conference, believing that the United States and Israel are trying to buy them off and impose political solutions. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Bahrain sentences 51 accused of Iran-linked terror plots

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Trump's former national security adviser says reentering Iran deal would be 'huge mistake'

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Flowers, candles and an Austria scarf are left at a memorial site at the scene of an attack in Vienna, Austria on November 3, 2020, one day after a shooting at multiple locations across central Vienna. - A huge manhunt was under way after gunmen opened fire at multiple locations across central Vienna in the evening of November 2, 2020, killing at least four people in what Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described as a "repulsive terror attack". (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Get

Vienna shooter tried to join Islamic State in Syria

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A picture shows the Manama's repurposed convention centre, in which 6,000 people are participating in a large-scale trial of a Chinese-sponsored vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus, on August 27, 2020 in the Bahraini capital. - Chinese drug giant Sinopharm began testing the inactivated COVID-19 jab in Bahrain earlier this month after starting a similar trial on 15,000 subjects in the nearby United Arab Emirates in July. The current phase of the study, in which the vaccine's efficacy and safety is tested in

Bahrain approves Chinese COVID-19 vaccine for front-line workers

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Israel's COVID-19 vaccine administered to first trial volunteers

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US officials confirm Iranian hackers stole voter data

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