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China has banned its citizens from working in construction in the West Bank, upsetting Israeli plans to increase settlement building.

Reeling from reverses it has suffered in northern and central Syria, and hard pressed by the Islamic State group, the regime is being reinforced by its Iranian and Iraqi allies.

Raif Badawi who is suffering from ill health will serve the rest of his sentence despite the international outcry against it.

Concerns about a clampdown on critical media grew as the Kuwaiti government closed down three independent television channels.

A year after the Islamic State group launched a brutally effective offensive, Iraq is struggling to survive as a unified nation, gripped by seemingly endless violence and humanitarian tragedy.

Houthi representative says they will attend a planned UN conference on Yemen without "preconditions".

OPEC has decided to maintain output at current levels, despite low oil price on world markets, ministers from the oil cartel meeting in Vienna said on Friday.

Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, to be tried a second time over the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.

The strikes in the blockaded Palestinian territory are believed to be in response to rocket fire targeting Israel.