These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, at 6am GMT.
- ‘Positive progress’ in US-Iran indirect talks in Doha: Qatar spokesman
- Strait of Hormuz reopens but UN warns poorest nations will face lasting economic fallout
- Iran says to use frozen funds in Qatar to buy ‘required goods’
- Lebanon and Syria join US-led Middle East military talks
- Iraq, GCC discuss stronger ties as Baghdad pledges closer Gulf cooperation
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