Hamas announced Tuesday it had signed an agreement in China with other Palestinian factions to work together for "national unity," as Beijing emerges as a diplomatic broker. Turkey’s Central Bank kept interest rates steady on Tuesday as inflation cools and the Biden administration resumed negotiations with a senior Iraqi delegation over the roughly 2,500 US troops in Iraq.

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On Sunday, as President Joe Biden announced he was removing his bid from the 2024 US election, the floodgates opened up for a new contender to take his place. Prominent democrats, Biden included, have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his spot, and while her Middle East foreign policy track record aligns with Biden's, there could be differences. Plus, Turkey's ruling party has walked back the controversial stray dog bill amid uproar from animal rights activists.

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Business correspondent Jack Dutton discusses a report this week that found that even with runaway inflation, Turkey ranks exceptionally high in global wealth growth.

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Iraq announced on Monday that it has resumed negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the first time since 2008, ultra-Orthodox protesters fight police near Tel Aviv after Israel’s military begins issuing draft notices and at least six killed in attack on a Shiite mosque in the Omani capital, Muscat.

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Egypt’s remittances reach $2.7 billion in boost to foreign reserves, the US dispatches senior officials to Cairo to bridge gaps between Israel and Hamas on a cease-fire proposal and the NATO summit kicks off in Washington on Tuesday.

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A radical shift in the United Kingdom’s Middle East policy is unlikely under the newly elected Labour government, though internal rifts could pose a challenge to Palestine matters. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he might invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Turkey. Iranians head to the polls in a run-off presidential election vote, and Israel said Friday that "gaps" remained with Hamas on how to secure a Gaza cease-fire and hostage-release deal.

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Hamas has provided new feedback to the Israeli cease-fire proposal intended to close the gap between the two sides, a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon and Iranians will vote on Friday in a presidential runoff pitting the Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.

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