Middle East and North Africa

Cairo (Reuters) – Egypt aims to vaccinate 40% of its population against coronavirus by the end of 2021, the prime

Dubai (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation will start COVID-19 vaccinations next week in north Yemen where the Houthi authorities

Dubai (Reuters) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed the central bank governor, Abdolnaser Hemmati, one of the few moderates

Dubai (Reuters) – Qatar has no plans to normalise ties with Syria, the Gulf state’s foreign minister said, after Syrian

Vienna (Reuters) – Iran has failed to explain traces of processed uranium found at several undeclared sites, a quarterly report

Riyadh (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is lifting a ban on travelers arriving from 11 countries that it imposed to curb

Beirut (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Friday congratulated Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on winning a fourth term in office, it

Amman (Reuters) – A “sham” election designed to prolong President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on Syria shows that only international pressure

Dubai (Reuters) – Iran has banned the energy-intensive mining of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin for nearly 4 months, President Hassan