Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected on November 3, 2019 to formally launch a long-anticipated stock offering of Saudi Aramco, a person close to the matter said on November 1, 2019
Brazil seeks to deepen its ties with the Arab world, despite Bolsonaro's pro-Israel stance.
Tensions rattled Lebanon's nine-day protest movement Friday, with a powerful Shiite leader seeking to diffuse them by calling his supporters away from the streets.The demonstrators -- who have thronged towns and cities across Lebanon -- have been demanding the removal of the entire political class, accusing many across different parties of systematic corruption.The chief of powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, Friday warned that any cabinet resignation would lead to "chaos and collapse" of the economy.
Israel says the Gaza blockade is necessary to stop Hamas from obtaining materials for weapons but critics say it is collective punishment of two million people and feeds extremism
The scene in Tahrir Square ahead of larger protests expected Friday
US President Bill Clinton (C) witnesses Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin (L) and his Jordanian counterpart Abdelsalam Majali signing the Israeli-Jordanian peace accord at the Wadi Araba border crossing
Gantz has 28 days to form a majority coalition and if he fails, the president can ask parliament to agree on another candidate for prime minister
Tunisia's new President Kais Saied received a rousing round of applause from a packed parliament when he vowed to uphold women's right
Netanyahu has not given up in his battle to retain the Israeli premiership, which he has held for a record total of more than 13 years
Benny Gantz is a former military chief who had no political experience before he challenged Netanyahu
While much of Asia is tolerant of homosexuality, Taiwan became in May 2019 the first in the region to allow gay marriage
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) has been unable to form a government, making way for his main rival, Benny Gantz (R) to try
A Palestinian protester makes an insulting gesture to Israeli border guards during a protest against construction of an Israeli outpost near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro have said that Trump's reversal on the G7 doesn't end the culture of corruption in his administration.
The annual Shiite Muslim Arbaeen pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq has become the scene for anti-corruption protests, following a call by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
Israelis have been watching the US administration's decisions on Syria closely, concerned that, like the Kurds, their country too could be abandoned by its most important ally
The skin on Yamin's back is still scarred from the burns he suffered in 2014
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and US Vice President Mike Pence (L), pictured on September 20, 2019, were scheduled to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but Erdogan has said he will not meet them
Iran denied any attack took place, saying it has the cyberdefenses to fight off any incursion.
Saied won Sunday's presidential runoff by a landslide
The blazes have devastated parts of the forest in Lebanon's Chouf region
Saudi Arabia's football team will play Palestine in the West Bank for the first time
