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Middle East
More than 85,000 Yemeni children may have died from hunger, aid group says
Civil war has unleashed the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis in Yemen with 8.4 million people believed to be on the verge of starvation.
- by Aziz El Yaakoubi & Mohammed Ghobari
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United Arab Emirates
British academic jailed for life in UAE after 'five-minute hearing'
Matthew Hedges' hearing lasted less than five minutes and his lawyer was not present, his family said.
- by Aziz El Yaakoubi
Extremism
More than 50 killed by suicide bombing at Kabul wedding hall
The blast targeted a gathering of Sunni Muslims commemorating the anniversary of the prophet Muhammad's birth.
- by Hamid Shalizi & Abdul Qadir Sediqi
World Politics
Airbnb ends West Bank listings, upsetting Israel
Most of the world considers the settlements, built on land Israel captured in the 1967 war, to be a violation of international law.
- by Isabel Kershner
Yemen
Yemeni rebels say they will halt rocket fire at Saudi Arabia
Yemen's Shiite rebels said on Monday that they will halt rocket fire into Saudi Arabia for the sake of peace efforts, answering a key Saudi demand in the latest push to stop the civil war in the Arab world's poorest country.
World Politics
Netanyahu pleads with partners to salvage his government
The Israel PM warned his teetering coalition partners that toppling the government at such a complex time for national security would be 'irresponsible'.
- by Isabel Kershner
War
Yemen’s Houthis halt missile attacks on Saudi coalition
International pressure has mounted on Yemen's warring parties to end the war that has killed more than 10,000 people and pushed the country to starvation
- by Aziz El Yaakoubi
World Politics
Netanyahu's turmoil a threat for Trump's Middle East peace plan
Israeli officials had been urging the Trump administration not to release its plan too close to the elections, which could be sooner than previously thought.
- by David Wainer
US-led airstrikes kill dozens in Syria
At least 40 people, mostly women and children, were killed on Saturday by US-led airstrikes on the last pocket held by Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, a war monitor and Syrian state media reported.
Khashoggi case
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi's assassination
The CIA concludes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
- by Shane Harris, Greg Miller & Josh Dawsey
Khashoggi case
Woman says she was quietly married to Khashoggi
An Egyptian woman says she married Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a religious ceremony in the United States this year.
- by Greg Miller & Souad Mekhennet