CAIRO -- The Cairo-based Arab League (AL) condemned in a statement on Saturday Australia's recent decision to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

"The decision is a dangerous violation of the international legal status of the city of Jerusalem and the relevant legitimacy resolutions," Saeed Abu Ali, AL assistant secretary general for the occupied Palestinian and Arab lands, said in the statement. (Arab League-AL-Australia-Jerusalem)

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TEHRAN -- Iran's Foreign Ministry welcomed the recent preliminary agreement between the conflicting Yemeni sides as "promising" for continuation of talks, Tehran Times daily reported on Saturday.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the Yemeni parties had reached an agreement on ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. (Iran-Yemen truce)

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces demolished early Saturday in the West Bank the four-story house of Islam Abu Hmeid, charged of murdering a soldier, said a report by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The demolished building, owned by Abu Hmeid and his family, is located in the Palestinian refugee camp of Al-Am'ari, near the city of Ramallah. (Israel-Palestine)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian Antiquities Minister, Khaled al-Anany, announced Saturday the discovery of an "exceptionally well-preserved" tomb belonging to a Fifth Dynasty royal priest at Saqqara Necropolis near Giza's pyramids.

"The Old Kingdom tomb is well preserved and the walls are decorated with colored scenes depicting the owner of the tomb with his mother, wife and family as well as a number of niches with large colored statues of the deceased and his family," the minister told Xinhua. (Egypt-Pharaonic Tomb) Enditem

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