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Shell exits Abu Dhabi’s $10bn project
Royal Dutch Shell announced its withdrawal from Abu Dhabi’s $10 billion Bab sour gas project.

Royal Dutch Shell announced its withdrawal from Abu Dhabi’s $10 billion Bab sour gas project.

Lebanon’s Christian politician Samir Geagea endorses a presidency bid by rival Michel Aoun.

Iranian lawmakers give Education Minister Ali Asghar Fani a second official notice.

A bomb explosion kills at least six paramilitary soldiers in southwestern Pakistan.

The French foreign minister says the EU is set to discuss fresh anti-Iran sanctions over the country's ballistic missile program.

Police in the US state of New York are investigating the deaths of two college students and one former student as a murder-suicide.

Shares of Saudi petrochemical giant, SABIC, lose value after company reports annual profit fall.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is preparing to launch a plan to force Muslim women in the country to learn English or face deportation.

Greece's president says Turkish border officials are helping people smugglers.

The EU foreign policy chief says the JCPOA implementation was a big step in the right direction for the region.

Former Iranian soccer player and coach Reza Naddaf Ahadi has passed away at the age of 53.

Dozens are killed as Saudis pound police compounds in Yemeni capital of Sana’a and elsewhere across the country.

A bomb attack at a mosque in Cameroon's northern region claims four lives and injures two people.

The Turkish opposition leader is facing an investigation for his critical comments against President Erdogan.

The new US sanctions imposed against Iran over its ballistic missile program is a scheme by Zionist neoconservatives in the Obama administration, says an analyst.

Tata and Asda have announced plans to cut hundreds of jobs in Britain.

The AEOI head says Iran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear agency has entered a new phase.

WFP says some 14 million people face hunger in southern Africa because of a drought.