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Greece’s relevant migration minister on Monday promised to establish camps for refugees and undocumented migrants that have continued to slip into Greece by the thousands since the beginning of the year, while also dismissing concerns the phenomenon has for the crisis-plagued country’s image as a tourism destination.

The United States will offer to help Nigeria's new leader track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and increase U.S. military assistance to fight Islamic militants, U.S. officials said, as Washington seeks to "reset" ties with Africa's biggest economy. 

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) Egypt affiliate said in a statement on a social media site it carried out an attack in North Sinai on military checkpoints that killed five members of the country's security forces on July 18.

The deaths occurred when several mortar rounds hit two checkpoints, security sources said earlier. 

Only a few days after Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers announced their historic deal on the former?s nuclear program, a top Hamas delegation went to Saudi Arabia to hold talks with new King Salman for the first meeting between the two sides in years. 

Six supporters of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were killed in clashes with police in Cairo on July 17, security sources said. The violence in different locations took place as Egyptians marked the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. 

Turkey, Egypt and Bulgaria have become the most popular destinations for Russian tourists this summer, the Association of Russian Tour Operators said on Thursday, citing data provided by TUI Russia.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said it carried out a missile strike on an Egyptian navy vessel off North Sinai on July 16, the first such incident in a two-year insurgency.

The Bulgarian Ina Dimitrova set a world record for the deepest scuba dive in saltwater for women.

Dimitrova descended to a depth of 201 metres during a training dive in the Red Sea on Tuesday, private bTV station reports.

Thus, the Bulgarian became the second woman to reach a depth of more than 200 metres.

Close friends and family paid respects on July 12 to cinema legend Omar Sharif, who will forever be remembered as the eponymous "Doctor Zhivago," at a solemn funeral in his native Egypt.

Sharif, 83, died on July 10 of a heart attack in an upmarket Cairo clinic after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Former President Abdullah Gül has criticized Turkey's foreign policy, saying the country needs to revise its Middle East policy by adopting a more realistic point of view.