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Donald Trump was to meet with the Israeli leader, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, before they sign the US-brokered normalisation deal.
The Israeli army has been using heavy machinery on agricultural land and near residential areas in the northern Jordan Valley, posing dangers to locals and their livelihoods.
Qatar's assistant foreign minister has assured that Doha will not follow the footsteps of the UAE and Bahrain in normalising relations with Israel.
Jordan has seen a new wave of coronavirus cases leading authorities to respond.
The event at the White House will be the first time Arab nations have established relations with Israel since Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
Mainstream Palestinian Authority (PA) and Islamist movement Hamas have condemned the US-brokered accords as a "stab in the back" of their people.
Comment: The Saudi-Emirati alliance is at the heart of attempts to delegitimise the Palestinian cause and normalise Arab ties with Israel, including at the Arab League, writes Muhammad Shehada.
The agreement is the first of its kind to be signed between two higher education research institutes from the UAE and Israel after the two countries struck a 'peace' deal.
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.
Nazem Shaker was announced dead earlier this week after contracting the novel coronavirus.
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