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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday that Tehran was looking into U.S. President Donald Trump's request for negotiations, according to a post on the minister's Telegram account.

The Lebanese president delivers his sharpest rebuke yet to Hezbollah after the group's leader condemned direct negotiations with Israel as destabilising.

In simultaneous attacks launched on Saturday, an alliance of al Qaeda-linked militants and separatist rebels killed Mali's defence minister, hit the capital's airport and drove Russian soldiers out of a desert town over a thousand kilometres away.

From zero corporate tax to a 20-year income tax exemption for new residents, Ankara is rolling out an ambitious package to turn Istanbul into a global financial hub.

Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people over what it described as sympathy with Iran's hostile acts and collaboration with foreign entities, the kingdom's interior ministry said in a statement.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran could telephone if it wants to negotiate an end to their two-month war, as Tehran's foreign minister landed in Russia on Monday to seek support from President Vladimir Putin.

Israel's military issued new evacuation orders for southern Lebanon on Sunday, ordering residents to leave seven towns that lie beyond the "buffer zone" it occupied before a ceasefire that has failed to bring a full halt to hostilities.

Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most formidable political rivals said on Sunday they were joining forces in a bid to oust his coalition government in the upcoming election expected later this year.

Tens of thousands of Druze from across Israel converge on the Galilee for their most important annual religious gathering, honouring the Prophet Jethro.

The president of the Syrian Liberal Party issues a firm rebuttal to an i24NEWS report suggesting back-channel dealings between Syrian opposition figures and Israel.

Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections, election officials said on Sunday, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip run by rival Hamas.

Six artists explore sound, migration and identity in a pavilion that opens to the public on 9 May.