Iran said a longstanding UN embargo on arms sales to and from the Islamic republic expired Sunday in line with a 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers from which Washington has withdrawn.

Saudi Arabia allowed its citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform prayers in one of the most holy religious sites in Islam, Al-Haram mosque in Mecca, for the first time in seven months, state television reported early today.

UAE has asked airlines and travel agents to implement new procedures for visit/tourist visa holders flying into Dubai from five countries including Bangladesh, after hundreds of passengers stranded at Dubai International Airport since October 13 were flown back to their countries, Gulf News said in a report.

Israel has stopped granting visas to UN human rights workers, forcing them to stop their work and leave the country, according to a report by Middle East Eye (MEE).

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has lifted coronavirus-induced restrictions for Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines so that they are able to carry passengers on every seat when operating flights to different destinations in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s Chamber of Commerce head Ajlan Al Ajlan has called for a boycott of “everything Turkish”, including imports, investment, and tourism, reports Gulf News.

Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August, killing nearly 200 people, according to state media reports.

Jazeera Airways, a Kuwait-based airlines, has started operating flights from Dhaka.

The head of Israel’s foreign intelligence service Mossad met Bahrain’s heads of national intelligence and strategic security during a visit to Bahrain, Bahrain’s state news agency (BNA) has reported.

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a framework for US-mediated talks aimed at ending a long-running dispute over a border that has been the frontline of several conflicts.

Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament yesterday as the country prepared to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who helped steer the US-allied Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades.

Saudi Arabia plans to cut spending by 7.5% in next year’s budget to 990 billion riyals ($263.94 billion) but expects the economy to return to growth as its management of the coronavirus crisis improves.

Staffers of the sample collection centre at the Dhaka North City Corporation market delivered a Covid-19 test report within just nine hours of sample collection of a Saudi-bound expatriate Bangladeshi worker.

Bangladesh has requested the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to increase flights between the two countries so that the expatriates stranded here can return to their workplaces smoothly.

The bodies of two Palestinian fishermen who Palestinian officials say were shot dead by Egyptian naval forces were returned to Gaza, the territory’s ruling Islamist group Hamas has said.

Biman and US-Bangla Airlines today decided to resume their flights to Muscat, Oman from October 2 and 1 respectively.

Thirty-two Bangladeshi expatriate workers have not been allowed by the immigration authority to go to Saudi Arabia as they got tested for Covid-19 at private hospitals instead of the government approved test centre at Dhaka’s Mohakhali.

A group of Saudi dissidents exiled in Britain, the US and elsewhere announced the launch of an opposition party on Wednesday, the first organised political resistance under King Salman’s rule.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz yesterday called for a comprehensive solution on Iran and disarming its affiliate Hezbollah in Lebanon, and expressed support for US efforts to start talks between Israel and the Palestinians during his first address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Bangladesh has requested the Saudi government to extend the tenure of ‘Iqama’ (valid work permit) and visa of Bangladeshi expatriates for three more months so that workers stuck here can return to the Gulf country.