Estonia will close all its border crossing points with Russia from December 1, its foreign minister said on Sunday, following a suspected sabotage attack on an Estonian defence company that Tallinn blamed on Moscow.
Iran and its allies ramped up pressure on the US and allied Gulf states on two fronts on Sunday, with Saudi-backed forces retreating in their battle against the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen and Iran itself firing drones at US bases in Bahrain.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam arrived in Doha on Sunday with Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi for further talks on cooperation with Qatar in the electricity sector, the Grand Serail announced on X.
Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced three men to death on Sunday for carrying out an attack on a church in the southern governorate of Karak last month that killed nine people, the state news agency Petra reported.
Yemeni forces fighting for the internationally recognised Saudi-backed government said on Sunday that they were withdrawing from an area overlooking the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, leaving the Iran-aligned Houthis in control.
Hamas said on Sunday that a senior commander who helped plan and oversee the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel had been killed in an Israeli airstrike, with the Israeli military confirming his death.
Bahrain intercepted and destroyed several Iranian aerial attacks, it said on Sunday, while Tehran said it had struck a US military base in the Gulf kingdom amid uncertainty over a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they had fired two ballistic missiles at what they described as concentrations of Saudi forces in Al-Tuwal in Jazan province, hours after Saudi civil defence issued an all-clear for the province.
President Donald Trump has told senior advisers in recent days that he may hold off on attacking Iran if the US faces no new provocations from Tehran or the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that Lebanon must do more to reach agreement on restructuring its banking system and sharing out the losses from its economic collapse, while protecting depositors.
Gadi Eisenkot, the man tasked with forming Israel’s next government, accused outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of waging a “racist and aggressive campaign” against the country’s Arab minority.
Turkey and Qatar signed a mutual defence agreement on Friday, the office of President Tayyip Erdogan said, as the Turkish leader met the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Istanbul.
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