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Ever Given enters Great Bitter Lake

Reason for Suez Canal ship's grounding under investigation

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AL-MONITOR Staff

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang leaves the NYC Board of Elections office on March 23, 2021, in New York City.

Andrew Yang continues criticism of BDS movement

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AL-MONITOR Staff

Senior adviser Jared Kushner and US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin listen while Donald Trump announces an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalize diplomatic ties, the White House August 13, 2020, in Washington, DC.

Senators introduce bill to strengthen Israeli-Arab normalization agreements

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A member of the Syrian Kurdish internal security services known as Asayish stands guard during the release of persons suspected of being related to Islamic State (IS) group fighters from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria, on January 19, 2021.

Kurdish forces in northeast Syria conduct security raid in al-Hol camp

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AL-MONITOR Staff

Judges David Re (up, R) and Janet Nosworthy (up, L) are seen before the start of the session of the Lebanon Tribunal in Leidschendam, on Dec. 11, 2020, where the sentence was set for Salim Jamil Ayyash, a member of the Hezbollah militant group who was convicted of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others 15 years ago. Ayyash, 57, was found guilty in absentia of murder and terrorism on Aug. 18 by the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon over the

US offers up to $10M reward for information on Hezbollah operative

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AL-MONITOR Staff

A man rides his bycycle in the northeastern Egyptian city of Ismailiya, in front of the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given'

Ship stuck in Suez Canal finally freed

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Covid testing in Sulaimaniyah

Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq receives AstraZeneca vaccine

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AL-MONITOR Staff

Dink supporters outside courthouse

Turkish court sentences former police chiefs over Armenian-Turkish journalist's murder

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AL-MONITOR Staff

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-) long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. - A giant container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal after a gust of wind blew it off course, the vessel's operator said on March 24, 2021, bringing marine traffic to a halt along one of the world's busiest trade routes. (Photo by Suez

Freeing jammed Suez Canal ship could take 'days to weeks'

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AL-MONITOR Staff

A protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey attends a protest against the visit of China's Foreign Minister to Turkey, in Istanbul on March 25, 2021. - Hundreds protested against the Chinese official visit and what they allege is oppression by the Chinese government to Muslim Uyghurs in the far-western Xinjiang province.

Uyghurs in Turkey protest Chinese FM's visit

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AL-MONITOR Staff

People displaced by conflict receive food aid donated by a Kuwaiti charity organisation in the village of al-Haima in the Khokha district of Yemen's war-ravaged western province of Hodeida, on March 20, 2021.

Saudi Arabia to allow fuel shipments through blockade of Yemen’s Hodeida: Report

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AL-MONITOR Staff

mustafa al-kadhimi

Iraq, US to resume new round of strategic dialogue

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AL-MONITOR Staff