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A clinical trial will test two kinds of Chinese-made vaccines on participants in Egypt, who will not know what they were injected with or receive payment.
The US Embassy said it was encouraged by "an apparent sovereign Libyan agreement" to enable Libya’s National Oil Corporation to resume its "vital and apolitical work."
A delegation led by General Ahmed Abdel Khalek, Palestinian affairs chief in the Egyptian intelligence service, has shuttled between the two sides in a bid to broker the exchange.
No peace agreements can bring lasting peace to Palestinians under Israeli occupation without justice and compensation, Amnesty said on Friday, as Bahrain announced normalisation with Israel.
Iran said that through this "shameful" deal, Bahrain has "sacrificed the Palestinian cause at the altar of American elections".
Journalist Islam el-Kalhy was detained on fake news charges after reporting on the death of a young man in police custody.
Rival factions Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have slammed the agreement as a 'stab in the back'.
The UN Security Council will vote on a draft resolution next week, but there has been disagreement between member states over who will be named as special envoy.
Bahrain will be the fourth Arab state to normalise relations with Israel following Egypt (1979), Jordan (1994) and the UAE (2020).
Two acquaintances of the witnesses were also detained before they were all released on August 31.
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