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Yemeni officials say heavy fighting in Yemen’s southern Dhale province between pro-government forces and Houthi rebels has killed more than 85 people.
The United Nations secretary-general has condemned an attack on a U.N. convoy in Mali that killed a peacekeeper from Egypt.
Fighting erupted April 5 pitting the LNA, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and aligned with a rival government in the east, against militias affiliated with Tripoli’s UN-supported government.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Kuwait sent the heads of their legislative bodies, while Iran dispatched a senior parliamentary official.
Forces loyal to Libya's unity government said on Saturday they have launched a counter-attack against strongman Khalifa Haftar's fighters just south of the capital Tripoli.
The one-day summit will bring together representatives from Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Kuwait.
Protest leaders are to hold talks on Saturday with Sudan's military rulers who have so far resisted calls to transfer power to a civilian administration, AFP reports.
The Saudi-led coalition launched an air raid on Saturday on a cave in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, used by Houthi rebels to stockpile drones, a spokesman said.
The attack near the communications ministry occurred one day after planned talks between the Taliban and Afghan representatives were cancelled.
The three-day plebiscite is expected to approve sweeping constitutional changes that will extend Sisi's rule in Egypt until at least 2024.
Islamic State group jihadists have killed 35 pro-Damascus fighters in Syria, in what a monitoring group described on Saturday as their deadliest operation since the fall of the "caliphate".
Thousands of Palestinian Christian pilgrims and clergy members marched through the ancient stone alleys of Jerusalem’s Israeli-occupied Old City, retracing Jesus’ path to crucifixion in observation of Good Friday.
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