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A supporter of Shi'ite Amal Movement drives past a poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the parliamentary election day in Houla, southern Lebanon May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo

Middle East

Hezbollah and allies lose majority in Lebanese parliament, final results show

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, 15 January 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Middle East

Israel says Iran working on advanced centrifuges at new underground sites

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken offer condolences to United Arab Emirates' President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan after the death of UAE's President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the Presidential Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2022. United Arab Emirates Ministry of Presidential Affairs/Handout via REUTERS

USA

Biden sends top-tier team to UAE with eye on frayed ties

A general view of the gas field in Basra , Iraq, August 26, 2017. Picture taken August 26, 2017. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani

Global Economy

Iraq balks at greater Chinese control of its oilfields

A supporter of Lebanon's Hezbollah gestures as he holds a Hezbollah flag in Marjayoun, Lebanon May 7, 2018/ Reuters

Middle East

Lebanon's Hezbollah, allies likely to lose parliamentary majority, sources say

A woman walks past a statue of Iraqi poet Abdel Ghani Maarouf al Rusafi during a sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq, May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

Middle East

Sandstorm closes schools, offices and halts flights in Iraq

A vendor inspects Iranian rials at a currency exchange shop in Baghdad, Iraq August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily/File Photo

Middle East

Price protests turn political in Iran as rallies spread

Shireen Abu Akleh. Photo: Reuters

Bangladesh

Bangladesh condemns the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

An Iranian man holds stacks of bread as he walks along a street in Tehran, Iran May 1, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Middle East

Price protests turn political in Iran as rallies spread

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan speaks as he meets Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Downing Street, London, Britain, September 16, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

Middle East

UAE's newly elected ruler sees Iran, Islamists as threat to Gulf safe haven

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan speaks as he meets Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Downing Street, London, Britain, September 16, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

Middle East

UAE strongman Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed named new president

Mourners clash with Israeli security forces during the funeral of slain veteran Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem's Old City on May 13, 2022, two days after she was killed while covering an Israeli army raid in the West Bank. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

USA

Shireen Abu Akleh funeral: Antony Blinken condemns ‘intrusion’ by Israel

Photo: Collected

Middle East

Five killed in Israeli air strike on Syria