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Two vessels sustained damage after being hit with missiles and a sea drone off Yemen's Hodeidah port early on Tuesday, maritime security agencies and sources monitoring the area said.

The German airline giant Lufthansa announced the extension of the cancellation of its flights to Israel until the end of October. 

Israel said intense fighting erupted with Hezbollah in south Lebanon on Tuesday after its paratroops and commandos launched raids there, at the start of a ground incursion and after devastating airstrikes against Hezbollah's leadership.

At least two Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs late on Monday, a security source said, with Reuters reporters seeing two flashes of light and hearing loud blasts coming from the neighbourhood.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will hold informal talks with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders in New York in October "to have an exchange on the way forward on the Cyprus issue," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) chief on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon and called on states to push back against Israeli attacks on the agency.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday in comments directed at Iran that there was nowhere in the Middle East beyond Israel's reach, two days after Israel killed the leader of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, was a "brutal terrorist" and the world is "safer without him," said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.

The United States on Monday will announce nearly $336 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a U.S. Agency for International Development statement seen by Reuters.

Emirati airline flydubai said on Monday its Dubai-Beirut flights have been cancelled until Oct. 7 due to "ongoing developments", after earlier saying Beirut flights were cancelled until Oct. 3.

Hezbollah's deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassem said the group would appoint a new leader at the earliest opportunity to replace Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and vowed that the Iran-backed movement would continue fighting Israel.

Japan's incoming prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, said on Monday he will call a general election for Oct. 27 following his victory in one of the closest ever leadership races for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.