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The conference was announced by Downing Street ahead of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's arrival in Egypt on Monday for a peace plan signing co-chaired by US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. While Starmer has not attended the conference, convened at the UK Foreign Office's Wilton Park conference center, it has been led by the UK's Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer,

Hezbollah has branded the Lebanese government's push to have a state monopoly on arms as a grave sin and is dismissing it out of hand as if it doesn't exist.

Mr. Trump's misguided, incompetent attack on global trade threatens to irreparably harm U.S. influence across the world's most commercially dynamic region, leaving a vacuum for China to fill.