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Sunday saw street rallies swell again, with thousands streaming into central Beirut and other locations across the country.
Aid workers and Syrian Kurdish civilians desperately made their way to a border crossing with Iraq as regime troops, invited by Kurdish forces, advanced amid an ongoing Turkish offensive.
Egypt has urged international mediation after saying the latest round of Nile talks which ended earlier this month hit another 'deadlock'.
The four detained environmentalists were initially accused of spying on military bases but their indictments changed in October 2018 to spreading 'corruption on earth'.
An Iranian oil tanker has become to the first from its country to be targeted following a spate of attacks on vessels in the Gulf.
The Iraqi authorities have called three days of mourning for over 100 people killed during protests, after security forces admitted they had used excessive force.
Turkey's military operation in northeastern Syria began on Wednesday following the withdrawal of US troops from the region.
A UN investigation says US airstrikes on Afghan meth labs in May killed at least 30 civilians, however the US disputes the findings, claiming the labs were Taliban targets.
Islamic State militants have launched attacks on Kurdish-led forces in Raqqa just before the beginning of a Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria
Early on Sunday, Adel Abdel Mahdi's cabinet issued a decree including more than a dozen planned reforms, including land distributions, military enlistment and increased welfare stipends for needy families.
Polls opened on Sunday in Tunisia for the third round of legislative elections since the North African country's 2011 revolution, in a key vote eclipsed by a presidential runoff.
In a televised speech, Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh raised doubts over whether increased imports were being used for local consumption, following reports of smuggling to neighbouring Syria.
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