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The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed on Wednesday to a unity pact, both sides announced in a joint news conference.
The move, coming after a long line of failed efforts to reconcile after seven years of internal bickering, envisions a unity government within five weeks and national elections six months later.
Hamas, Abbas's PLO announce reconciliation agreement
'Suspected Al-Qaida militants' killed in second Yemen airstrike in two days
Airstrikes in southern Yemen killed about 30 suspected al-Qaida members on Sunday, local tribal sources said, in the second operation of its kind within two days.
On Saturday an air strike killed 10 al-Qaida militants and three civilians in central Yemen, a country that neighbours top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and is home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the group's most lethal wings.
Iran President Rouhani urges equal rights for women
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged equal opportunities and rights for men and women, and condemned sexual discrimination.
In a speech marking Women's Day, Mr Rouhani criticised "those who consider women's presence society as a threat" and said Iran still had "a long way to go" to ensure gender equality.
Mr Rouhani, a religious moderate, was elected to office in June 2013.
Iran condemns US seizure of Alavi Foundation building
Iran has condemned a US decision to seize a Manhattan skyscraper belonging to a non-profit organisation with alleged links to the Tehran government.
The 36-storey building is owned chiefly by the Alavi Foundation, a Persian and Islamic cultural centre. Iran said its seizure was illegal and violated religious freedom.
On Thursday the US justice department agreed to distribute proceeds from the sale of the building to victims of attacks by Iran-backed militants.
Iran says it watered down, converted over 200 kg of enriched uranium
Iran said on Saturday it had completed watering down and converting more than 200 kilograms (440 lb) of enriched uranium under a deal reached in Geneva last November with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.
"Based on the agreement with the West, we were supposed to have half of our 200 kilogram stock of uranium diluted and the other half converted to uranium oxide," Iran's atomic chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, told the Arabic-language Al Alam television channel.
Israeli vandals damage mosque in northern Israel
Police say vandals have damaged a mosque in northern Israel in an attack blamed on a fringe group of Jewish extremists.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the door of a mosque in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm was damaged overnight and the house of worship was sprayed with anti-Arab graffiti.
Yemen drone strike kills at least 12
An air strike has killed at least nine alleged Al-Qaeda fighters in the central Yemeni province of al-Bayda, security officials said.
Tribal sources in the area said a drone had been circling the region for days before the early Saturday strike hit two cars that contained suspected fighters, and added that at least three civilians in a nearby car were also killed, Reuters reported.
Yemen's Defense Ministry website quoted a security source as saying more than nine suspected Al-Qaeda members were killed.
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