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In this Oct. 8, 2019, photo, Associated Press journalists visit the Sustainability Pavilion at the under construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Its Sustainability Pavilion, which recalls the towers of New York’s 1964 world’s fair, will be covered in solar panels and surrounded by similarly paneled “energy trees” to make it a zero-energy structure. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai bets billions that Expo 2020 won’t be a desert mirage

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, right, attend the official welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Putin traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday, meeting with the oil-rich nation's king and crown prince as he seeks to cement Moscow's political and energy ties across the Mideast. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Russia’s Putin seeks to enhance ties to US-allied UAE

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Yemeni officials: Saudi troops take control Aden in deal

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

U.S. astronaut Nick Hague, right, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, centre, and United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, sit in chairs shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-12 space capsule about 150 km ( 90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. A Soyuz space capsule with U.S. astronaut Nick Hague, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, returning from a mission to the International Space Station landed safely on Thursday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool)

Down to Earth: Astronauts safely return after space mission

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In this July 21, 2019, file photo, a speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. A ship-tracking website shows a British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July moving for the first time in weeks. The movement of the Stena Impero on Tuesday, Sept. 24, comes after a government spokesman in Iran on Monday said legal proceedings against the vessel had concluded.(Hasan Shirvani/Mizan News Agency via AP, File)

Iran releases seized U.K.-flagged tanker

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

Australian-Lebanese dual citizen Amer Khayyat stands as he holds his Australian passport, after his release from prison in Roumieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Lebanese authorities have released the Lebanese -Australian who had been detained in Lebanon for more than two years after he was found innocent in an alleged plot to bring down a passenger plane bound for the United Arab Emirates from Sydney. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Australian-Lebanese jailed on Sydney bomb plot set free

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In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Iran's supreme leader announced on Tuesday that "there will be no talks with the U.S. at any level" — remarks apparently meant to end all speculation about a possible U.S.-Iran meeting between the two countries' presidents at the U.N. later this month. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader: No talks with the U.S. at any level

By Nasser Karimi and Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

This Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Yemen's Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world's largest exporter of oil. (Planet Labs Inc via AP)

Iran denies Saudi Arabia oil attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2019 file photo, Yemeni southern separatist fighters inspect the site of UAE airstrikes, near Aden, Yemen. Fighting between their allies in southern Yemen has opened a gaping wound in the Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ coalition fighting the country’s rebels. If they can’t fix it, it threatens to further fragment the country into smaller warring pieces. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty, File)

Cracks in Saudi-UAE coalition risk new war in Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2019 file photo, people inspect an oil tanker truck set ablaze during recent clashes between Yemeni southern separatists and government forces in near Aden, Yemen. Fighting between their allies in southern Yemen has opened a gaping wound in the Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ coalition fighting the country’s rebels. If they can’t fix it, it threatens to further fragment the country into smaller warring pieces. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty, File)

Yemeni protesters call for UAE removal from coalition

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Supporters of southern separatists gather with the flags of south Yemen and the United Arab Emirates during a rally to show support for the UAE amid a standoff with the internationally recognized government, in Aden, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 05, 2019. Yemeni officials say Saudi Arabia is pushing for a settlement between the internationally recognized government and southern separatists backed by the UAE. They said Thursday that Saudi and UAE officials have met separately to agree on a draft agreement before presenting it to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the Southern Transitional Council, which took control of Hadi's interim capital of Aden. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty)

Officials: Saudi Arabia pushes for settlement in south Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

People inspect an oil tanker truck set ablaze during recent clashes between Yemeni southern separatists and government forces near Aden, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty)

Rights experts flag violations of rape, sex abuse in Yemen

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2019, file photo, Houthi rebel fighters ride on trucks mounted with weapons, during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels Houthi hit a detention center in southwestern province of Dhamar, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 100 in rebel-run prison

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A displaced Yemeni receives food aid provided by the World Food Programme, at a school in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. The U.N. humanitarian chief in Yemen warned last Wednesday that unless significant new funding is received in the coming weeks, food rations for 12 million people in the war-torn country will be reduced and at least 2.5 million malnourished children will be cut off from life-saving services. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Sweden’s FM to tour Mideast to relaunch Yemen talks

By AHMED AL-HAJ AND JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, fighters from a militia known as the Security Belt, that is funded and armed by the United Arab Emirates, discuss launching a mortar towards Houthi rebels, in an area called Moreys, on the frontline in Yemen's Dhale province. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, to keep their floundering coalition war against Yemen's Houthi rebels together after an Emirati troop pullout and the rise of the southern separatists they supported. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Yemeni government forces push into key port city of Aden

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this photograph made available by the state-run WAM news agency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, receives a medal during his induction to the Order of Zayed from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. Modi is on a trip to both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, reinforcing ties between India and the Gulf Arab nations as he pursues stripping statehood from the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. (Hamad al-Kaabi - Ministry of Presidential Affairs/WAM via AP)

India’s Modi awarded UAE medal amid Kashmir crackdown

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

UN envoy warns threat of Yemen’s fragmentation gets stronger

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UAE expands taxes to target vaping and more sugary drinks

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FILE - In this Monday, March 8, 2004 file photo, an industrial plant strips natural gas from freshly pumped crude oil is seen at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oil field at Shaybah in Saudi Arabia's Rub al-Khali desert. Saudi state TV reported Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, that a fire had been controlled at the massive oil and gas Shaybah field after a drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. (AP Photo/Bruce Stanley, File)

Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq is warning the U.S. against embracing rebel leader Khalifa Haftar, a former Libyan army colonel with alleged CIA ties. "I think President Trump may have gotten the wrong message from allies or advisers about Haftar," he said. "It is our government in Tripoli, not Haftar, that is the main ally of the U.S. as a force to fight terrorism in Libya and North Africa." (Associated Press)

Ahmed Omar Maiteeq of Libya warns Donald Trump of Khalifa Haftar

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times