Middle East and North Africa
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The White House was silent before condemning the Obama administration’s ‘weakness’, as Trump struggles to define a policy vision
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PM says her trip to Arab state can send message about female leadership but stops short of criticising its equal rights approach
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Owner held and English DJ apologises after playing recording at Orbit festival in north-east of country
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Donald Trump expressed his support for the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, during a meeting in the Oval Office on Monday and vowed to work with him to fight Islamic militants
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EU reasserts that Bashar al-Assad has no future in Syria, on the eve of a major aid conference in Brussels aimed in part at boosting peace talks
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Scotland Yard’s move risks sparking diplomatic row as Theresa May prepares to visit Arab state to talk up closer trade links
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Theresa May will raise eyebrows by visiting the Arab state this week, but her post-Brexit trade ambitions demand it
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Family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Tehran for part in alleged plot to topple the government, mark 365 days since her arrest
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The outspoken Palestinian lawyer and author on reaching out to the young, political change in the Middle East and his optimism about the future
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Ayad al-Jumaili believed to have been killed in a strike by Iraqi air force near the Syrian border
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Brexit officially begins, the offensive in Mosul continues and a bust of Cristiano Ronaldo – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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Ahmed al-Asiri tells London seminar that human rights groups are being duped by Houthi rebels
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Human rights groups call for investigation after woman posted video to social media of her maid falling from seventh floor in an apparent suicide attempt
The Guardian view on Theresa May’s world: trading on fantasy