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Australian police said on Sunday that authorities there were investigating the "links to Australia" of a flydubai co-pilot who attacked the captain on a flight to Tel Aviv.

The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven Iranian conditions drawn from a June interim agreement with the United States are met, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday.

Eighty-five percent of African private-sector transactions are conducted with companies outside the continent. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi used that figure on Saturday to open the inaugural Alamein Africa Forum, a three-day business summit in the Mediterranean city of El-Alamein.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro narrowed ahead of Sunday's first-round vote, a CNT/MDA poll showed on Saturday, while also pointing to a tighter race in a likely runoff.

Two Iranian nationals appeared in a London court on Saturday charged with plotting acts of terrorism involving the use of a homemade bomb to attack the Jewish community in northern England at the behest of a figure believed to be based in Iran.

The Omani co-pilot suspected of trying to crash a Flydubai Boeing 737 on its way from Dubai to Tel Aviv completed a training course with Morocco's national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), before being turned down for a job there, the airline said Saturday.

A large plume of smoke and fire was seen rising in the vicinity of an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday, a witness told Reuters.

The Omani co-pilot who attacked his captain aboard a flydubai flight had been barred from flying by his own country's authorities, who suspected he had been radicalized, several international media outlets reported Saturday.

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs' centrist, pro-Ukraine United List party was seen winning a parliamentary election on Saturday by an unexpectedly wide margin, exit polls showed, with many voters on edge amid warnings of potential Russian aggression.

The co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073, which was bound for Israel, attempted to carry out a "terrorist attack" during the flight, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general said on Saturday, according to the state news agency WAM.

The Israel Defense Forces has published a database of 170 people killed in Gaza who were publicly described as journalists or media workers, but whom the military says were members of the armed wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups.

Pakistan's foreign minister said Iran has suggested engaging Yemen's Houthis politically after attacks by the group, an idea a committee of the Mecca defence pact will discuss at an emergency meeting in Riyadh next week.