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US Senate defies Trump on Saudi Arabia, backs effort to end support for war in Yemen
The US Senate has delivered a historic rebuke of Saudi Arabia and President Donald Trump's handling of the fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing last month.
- by Karoun Demirjian
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Khashoggi case
Search for Khashoggi's body closes in on Saudi tycoon's villa
A member of a 15-person kill squad sent from Riyadh contacted the mansion's owner a day before Khashoggi's death, authorities said.
- by Raf Sanchez
World Politics
UAE pardons, releases UK academic Matthew Hedges convicted of spying
The United Arab Emirates said on Monday it pardoned and released a British academic sentenced to life in prison on spying charges.
- by Jon Gambrell
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United Arab Emirates
UAE pardons British academic Matthew Hedges convicted of spying
The British academic was sentenced to life after showing journalists a video of him purportedly saying he was a captain in British intelligence.
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History
Egypt opens sarcophagus of 3000-year-old mummy
Egyptian authorities have unveiled before international media a well-preserved mummy of a woman inside a previously unopened coffin in Luxor in southern Egypt.
War
It survived three wars, now Gaza's only grand piano makes public debut
A Belgian charity, Music Fund, sent in experts to restore the piano after it was discovered abandoned in a destroyed theatre.
Syria
Syrian ceasefire at risk as Russian planes attack rebel positions
Russian warplanes have attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks following an alleged gas attack.
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War
Syria accuses rebels of poison gas attack in Aleppo
Doctors told Syrian state TV that most of those admitted to hospitals were suffering from breathing problems and blurred vision, consistent with gas poisoning.
- by Albert Aji
Yemen
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
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