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EGYPT

Suez traffic resumes as tanker towed away

Egypt deployed three tugboats on Sunday to tow away an oil tanker that had broken down and caused brief delays in the Suez Canal, authorities said. Traffic in both directions returned to normal after a brief disruption when the Malta-flagged Seavigour experienced a "machinery malfunction" while en route from Russia to China, the Suez Canal Authority said. Three tugboats "successfully towed and moored the ship" at a shipyard where the technical fault will be fixed before the tanker "resumes its crossing", according to a statement.

MIDDLE EAST

Iranian and Saudi FMs meet on bilateral ties

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, have discussed issues pertaining to the resumption and development of bilateral ties. The meeting was held on Friday on the sidelines of the Friends of BRICS meeting in Cape Town in South Africa, said the Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement. The Iranian foreign minister expressed satisfaction with the progress achieved toward the resumption of bilateral relations. The Saudi minister also expressed satisfaction with the "very good" progress, saying he will soon travel to Teheran.

Agencies - Xinhua