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On Tuesday, around three weeks after her death, Abu Jazar's body was brought home for burial in her town of Rafah.

Hussein Mankawi has little hope he will ever rebuild his home and food distribution businesses in the north-west Syrian city of Jandaris after they were reduced to rubble by last month's deadly earthquake, wiping out his life's work.

In January, the U.S. pledged to supply Ukraine with 31 advanced M1A2 Abrams tanks after months of shunning the idea of deploying the difficult-to-maintain tanks to Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia in February 2022.

Strains were still evident among regional U.S. banks with shares of First Republic Bank sliding on suggestions the government might be involved in a rescue deal, perhaps disadvantaging shareholders.

Ukraine has welcomed China's diplomatic involvement but says Russia must pull out its troops and underlines the importance of Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Baghdad accuses Ankara of withholding water in dams that choke the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near their point of origin in Turkey.

Emergency service employees have evacuated more than 10,000 people from settlements in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24 last year.

The agreement, which must still be ratified by the IMF's board, takes into consideration Ukraine's path to accession to the European Union after the war.

Data from the American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday showed U.S. crude inventories rose by about 3.3 million barrels in the week ended March 17, sources said.

Bulgaria's booming arms industry has never had it so good, with exports estimated at $4.3 billion last year (about four billion euros) -- three times its previous record.

Dress rules have stoked strong passions in Iran, especially restrictions on women who have long been required to wear modest clothing and headscarves.

An official source told Reuters on Tuesday that Amman had received assurances from Israel that the statements by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich did not represent Israel's position.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are prohibited from going to secondary school.

COP28 Chief Dr. Sultan Al Jaber spoke at the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial Summit ahead of this year's COP28.

Last October, a court handed Almadi a term of 16 years behind bars, which last month was lengthened to 19 years before his surprise release on Tuesday, Ibrahim said.

Smotrich had already faced international rebuke in early March after calling for a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank to be "wiped out", amid spiralling violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"Because of that, we've been able to stave off famine," WFP Afghanistan Country Director Hsiao-Wei Lee told Reuters.

The sit-down was to be unexpectedly mirrored in Kyiv, where Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was en route to meet Putin's nemesis Volodymyr Zelensky.

Two massive earthquakes shattered the fragile existence of Syria's diaspora in Turkey and left many in despair about having to piece their lives together yet again, somehow, somewhere.

The move to save Credit Suisse aimed to prevent a wider crisis as it is among the 30 global banks considered "too big to fail".

Kishida is the last G7 leader to visit the war-torn country and has come under increasing pressure to make the trip, as Japan hosts the grouping's summit this May.

Women first took to the field in the region 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Cairo in 1995, 30 years after the first men's team was established.

The oil-rich country remains traumatised from the years of war, occupation and bloody sectarian turmoil that followed the operation launched on March 20, 2003.

Police in Pakistan have arrested dozens of supporters and aides of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in raids in two cities as part of a crackdown on those involved in recent clashes with the security forces, Khan's party and police said on Monday.

Western nations slapped record sanctions on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine in February last year.

That move came as UBS Group AG agreed to pay 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.2 billion) for 167-year-old Credit Suisse Group AG and assume up to $5.4 billion in losses. Swiss regulators orchestrated the deal.

The Bank of Japan on Monday appointed Seiichi Shimizu, whose market and technical expertise on the bank's yield curve control (YCC) policy earned him the name "Mr.

South Africa's left-wing party has called for a nationwide shutdown on March 20 over unresolved issues in the country, including increased load shedding, inflation and corruption scandals.

Brent crude futures for May settlement slid 68 cents, or 0.9%, to $72.29 a barrel at 0500 GMT after a near 12% loss last week, its biggest weekly fall since December.