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After Jordan, will Turkey take the plunge with Assad? (Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor)

Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who backed regime change in Syria and allowed weapons to be funneled through his kingdom to opposition rebels, spoke to...

ASEAN ‘disappointed’ with Myanmar military’s peace commitment (Al Jazeera)

Myanmar’s military has made no significant progress in implementing a Southeast Asian roadmap for peace following their coup or given any feedback on the...

Singapore parliament to debate ‘foreign interference’ law (Al Jazeera)

Singapore’s parliament is debating controversial legislation that the government says is necessary to counter alleged foreign interference, but opposition parties, rights groups, social media...

UK plans fossil fuel-free power grid by 2035 using nuclear energy (Jessica Shankleman and Rachel Morison, Boomberg, Al Jazeera)

The U.K. will reserve a key role for nuclear power in the nation’s electricity system as a backup for renewables in a plan to...

French MPs condemn ‘human rights violations’ in Bahrain (Al Jazeera)

Several French members of parliament urged France’s foreign minister to speak out over the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain, a human rights organisation...

Sri Lanka indicts ISIL ‘mastermind’ over Easter Sunday bombings (Al Jazeera)

Sri Lankan prosecutors have indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators in...

Anxious wait for Afghan girls as opening of high schools stalled (Ali M Latifi, Al Jazeera)

Millions of teenage girls across Afghanistan are anxiously waiting to return to the classroom, as high schools continue to remain closed, raising fears about...

Global warming kills 14 percent of world’s corals in 10 years (Al Jazeera)

Global warming helped wipe out 14 percent of the world’s coral reefs between 2009 and 2018, the largest-ever survey of coral health has found,...

Libya parliament adopts law on legislative elections (Al Jazeera)

Libya’s parliament on Monday passed a law on legislative elections, its spokesman said, before a planned national vote set for December 24 under a...

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