TUNIS -- Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi on Tuesday decided to remove Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi, amid rising COVID-19 cases in the North African country.

"Mohamed Trabelsi, the minister of social affairs, will be in charge of the interim at the ministry of health," reads a statement issued by the Tunisian government. (Tunisia-Coronavirus-Health Minister)

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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi military said on Tuesday that a suicide bomber carried out the bombing in the east of the capital Baghdad that killed 30 people.

"Reports of explosive experts and forensic evidence at the crime scene showed that a suicide terrorist wearing an explosive belt caused the explosion, during which 30 citizens were killed and more than 50 others wounded," the media office of the Joint Operation Command said in a brief statement. (Iraq-Bombing-Investigation)

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KHARTOUM -- Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Tuesday reiterated his country's adherence to reaching a legal and binding deal on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

"The GERD remains on the top priorities of the transitional government," said Hamdok in a speech to the Sudanese people on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, the Islamic feast of sacrifice. (Sudan-PM-GERD)

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TEHRAN -- Iran completed the construction of a major onshore oil pipeline which will allow the country to bypass the Hormuz Strait, a vital passageway of the region, for its oil exports, Tasnim News Agency reported Tuesday.

The 2-billion-U.S.-dollar project will allow the crude to travel some 1,000 km from Iran's pumping facilities in Goureh located on the southwestern shores to the Oman Sea port of Jask on the southeastern shore of the country.(Iran-Oil-Pipeline) Enditem

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