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Iran has carried out a second test of its Zuljanah satellite launcher, Iranian state TV reported on Sunday, in a move likely to irk Washington amid expectations of a resumption of indirect talks between the arch foes to revive a 2015 nuclear pact. The …

Turkey has deported 136 undocumented Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan, according to reports. Afghanistan’s The Khama Press News Agency reported that Kocaeli in northwestern Turkey received 272 undocumented Afghans who had fled Afghanistan on Saturda…

Rainstorms across Syria in the early hours of Saturday morning killed at least two civilians and caused significant material damage, The New Arab’s Arabic-language service Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported. The rainstorm partially damaged displacement camps …

Queer rights activists in Lebanon have been forced to cancel protests outside the interior ministry after receiving death threats and warnings of homophobic counter protests. Activists and allies of the LGBT community in Lebanon had organised to meet i…

Fearing a data dragnet weaponized against women seeking abortions and those helping them, privacy groups are warning that pregnancy-related information online might present a serious legal risk and demanding tech companies take action in the wake of Am…

Ghislaine Maxwell has been put on suicide watch at a Brooklyn jail, and may seek to delay her Tuesday sentencing for aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls, her lawyer said on Saturday night. In a letter to the judge overseeing Maxwell…

The World Health Organization’s chief said Saturday that the monkeypox outbreak was a deeply concerning evolving threat but did not currently constitute a global health emergency. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus convened a committee of …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Sunday to a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and its far-reaching consequences, from energy shortages to a food crisis. The…

Israeli negotiators met with a U.S. mediator in an effort to resolve a maritime border dispute with Lebanon, Israel’s Energy Ministry said on Saturday. “The team heard an update from the mediator’s visit to Lebanon and the parties discussed formulating…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told Sweden’s prime minister that he has not seen any “tangible” moves to address Turkey’s concerns about her country joining NATO, Erdogan’s office said Saturday. Erdogan called in a phone conversation with P…