RIYADH - Saudi Arabia and Turkey set to establish strategic cooperation council, says Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir.
KHARTOUM - Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia sign new agreement to resolve Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam dispute after three days of talks.
MANAMA - Bahrain says three of its soldiers, serving as part of the Saudi-led Arab coalition deployed in Yemen, were killed amid clashes along Saudi Arabia's southern borders with Yemen.
VIENNA - The basket price of crude oil goes down 46 cents in one day to stand at USD 31.71 per barrel, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
PARIS - International press freedom body Reporters Without Borders (RWB) reveals the killing of 110 journalists in 2015, which it says is "indicative of the failure of the initiatives so far taken to protect media personnel."
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