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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to the Middle East later this week to support peace talks between Palestine and Israel, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrived in the West Bank City of Ramallah and the Gaza Strip early Wednesday.
Israel decided on Sunday to free 26 Palestinian prisoners over the next few days ahead of a new round of peace talks, in the first group of a total of more than 100 inmates it pledged to release.
Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation.
Egyptian police are expected to start taking action early on Monday against supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi who are gathered in crowded protest camps in Cairo, security and government sources said, a move which could trigger more bloodshed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent successful hernia surgery on Sunday, but will require several days' rest to make a full recovery, aides and doctors said.
The Chinese national found alive during Thursday's attack in central Kabul managed to escape on his own and received help from American troops.
Searching on missing Chinese is still underway
More than 60 people were killed and over 200 others wounded in a wave of bombings attacks across Iraq on Saturday, mostly in the capital Baghdad, according to latest data given by officials and local media.
Up to five al-Qaida militants were killed Saturday evening when US drone strikes hit their vehicles in Yemen's southern province of Lahj.
At least 40 people were killed and 250 others wounded in a wave of violent attacks across Iraq on Saturday, mostly in the capital Baghdad, police said.
Two Turkish pilots were kidnapped on a bus in Lebanon's capital of Beirut early Friday, according to a security source.
The Israelis and Palestinians will start their second and third rounds of peace talks after they resumed the talks in Washington late July.
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