Iraq’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved an amended draft oil law — a key plank to help unite the country’s warring communities — and forwarded the bill to the parliament.

Yemen’s president said on Tuesday that security authorities knew Al Qaeda was plotting attacks in the impoverished country, after a suicide car bomber killed seven Spanish tourists and two local drivers.

Brazil has accepted to resettle 100 Palestinians from Iraq who have been living in the Rweished refugee camp for more than four years, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.