Middle East and North Africa
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Trump's response to Syria gas attack: blame ObamaThe White House was silent before condemning the Obama administration’s ‘weakness’, as Trump struggles to define a policy vision
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Theresa May: building Saudi ties better than 'sniping' from sidelinesVisit to the region to explore new trade deals has drawn criticism from MPs and human rights activists
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Spanish police launch raids targeting Rifaat al-Assad’s assetsUncle of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is investigated by authorities in France and Spain over suspected misuse of public funds and money laundering
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Theresa May hopes to set example of female potential in Saudi ArabiaPM 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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Tunisian nightclub shut down over Muslim call to prayer remixOwner held and English DJ apologises after playing recording at Orbit festival in north-east of country
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Trump to Sisi: 'Egypt has a great friend and ally in the US' – videoDonald 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 at odds with Trump administration over Assad's role in SyriaEU 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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Met police look at allegations of Saudi war crimes in YemenScotland 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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PM's Saudi trip shows few nations will be ruled out of her 'global Britain'Theresa May will raise eyebrows by visiting the Arab state this week, but her post-Brexit trade ambitions demand it
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Jailed British-Iranian woman 'dreams of watching daughter play'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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Raja Shehadeh: ‘Once people experience liberation, it’s not easily forgotten’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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Isis deputy killed in airstrike, says Iraqi TVAyad al-Jumaili believed to have been killed in a strike by Iraqi air force near the Syrian border
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The 20 photographs of the weekBrexit 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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Egg thrown at Saudi general in protest against military campaign in YemenAhmed al-Asiri tells London seminar that human rights groups are being duped by Houthi rebels
The Guardian view on Theresa May’s world: trading on fantasy