First direct Israel-UAE flight lands in Abu Dhabi amid deal

A Star of David-adorned El Al plane has landed in Abu Dhabi after flying in from Israel, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates

India records highest daily increase in virus cases globally

India has registered a record new 78,761 coronavirus cases, the highest single-day spike in the world since the pandemic began, just as the government began easing restrictions to help the battered economy

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Libya's Tripoli- based gov suspends minister after shooting

Libya's Tripoli-based government has suspended its interior minister following a shooting at a demonstration in the capital earlier this week

Pompeo in Sudan, top US official to visit since uprising

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Sudan, the most senior U.S. official to visit the African country since last year’s ouster of its autocratic leader, Omar al-Bashir

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Iran retrieves data, cockpit talk from downed Ukraine plane

An Iranian official is quoted as saying that some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, have been retrieved from the Ukrainian jetliner downed by Iranian forces in January

AP Explains: How India's fast-growing cases topped 3 million

India's coronavirus cases have passed 3 million, with the country reporting the world's biggest daily jump in new infections as the disease continues to spread from cities to rural areas