News of Saturday 22 December 2018

• Germany to ban Iran’s Mahan Air: reports
• Pistachio exports slide in two months
• Iraq receives waiver extension to import Iranian gas, power
• Russia offers to host Palestine-Israel, Hamas-Fatah meetings
• 27 killed in US airstrikes on Syria's Dayr al-Zawr
• US government partially shuts down amid deadlock over Trump's border wall demands