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Khashoggi probe

Saudi says no plans for embargo despite row with West

Khashoggi probe

"Saudi Arabia is a completely responsible country."

Saudi says no plans for embargo despite row with West

Migrant Crisis

Moroccan youngster climbs a fence in the port of the Spanish enclave of Melilla bordering Morocco

Morocco to deport 141 migrants for storming border

Ethiopia peace deal

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia sings peace deal with separatist group

EU

Germany last month approved 416 million euros ($480 million) worth of arms exports to Saudi Arabia for 2018.

Berlin wants joint EU stance on Saudi arms sales

Khashoggi probe

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir

Riyadh vows Khashoggi killers will be held accountable

Khashoggi disappearance

Trump added that he has yet to be shown any evidence by intelligence officials that would make him believe MBS had any direct role.

Trump accuses Saudis of ‘deception’

Iraqi Kurds

"Now that he is the great heavyweight of Kurdish politics, no-one can do without him in Baghdad"

Barzani bounces back from Kurdish independence loss

Baqura and Ghumar

Jordanian King Abdullah II

Jordan ends application of 1994 peace deal with Israel

Author arrest in Egypt

Abdel Khalek Farouk

Egypt arrests economist after critical book

Future Investment Initiative

Saudi preps ‘Davos in the desert’ despite withdrawals

Future Investment Initiative

People attend the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh last year

Saudi preps ‘Davos in the desert’ despite withdrawals

Riyadh metro

Men walk at the construction site of Riyadh Metro

Saudi metro key driver of RATP's foreign growth

Lebanon Economy

A building is offered for rent in downtown Beirut

Political will needed to salvage Lebanon’s economy

Khashoggi disappearance

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Khashoggi shows Saudi economy vulnerable to politics

Art

Dubai’s new arts centre aims to be ‘innovative cultural hub’

N.P. Krishna Kumar

Art

A computer-generated model of the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai

Dubai’s new arts centre aims to be ‘innovative cultural hub’

N.P. Krishna Kumar

Gaza

Egypt destroyed many tunnels for smuggling under the border, exacerbating Gaza's isolation

Gazans eager to escape at Egypt border

Education

Courtyard of the Mahaba school in Ezbet al-Nakhl with a wall separating it from the shanty town in which it was built.

Pioneering Cairo school struggles to make ends meet

Literature

Visitors read books at the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale.

'World's largest book sale' comes to Middle East

Art

Visitors look at paintings at L’Atelier 21 gallery in Casablanca

Waves, Gnawa soul and trance blend in Najia Mehadji’s work

Raqa

Rights group Amnesty International estimates around 80 percent of Raqa was devastated by fighting

Raqa remains in ruins one year since recapture from IS

Archaeology

This picture taken on September 7, 2018 shows a male Sergeant major fish (Abudefduf saxatilis) swimming in the Egyptian Red Sea marine reserve of Ras Mohamed, off the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula

Study says Egyptians farmed fish 3,500 years ago

Art

Co-designer Kholoud Sharafi poses inside the artwork entitled 'United Arab Emirates, Time is Subjective' by designers Reem Al Ghaith, Kholoud Sharafi, Carlos Gris, Hamza Al Omari, and Claudia Rivera

Arab designers leave impact at London Biennale

Karen Dabrowska

Islamic State

A member of the first response team tours the courtyard of the National Hospital building in the northern Syria city of Raqa

Syrians scour Raqa for relatives captured by IS

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