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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Saturday strongly denied a reported meeting between Tehran's United Nations envoy and U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, in an interview with state TV.

The opportunity to resolve Iran’s nuclear program through diplomacy remains, but it is "limited," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday. His remarks follow the visit of Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to Iran.

Two flash bombs were fired towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday and fell into the garden, police said.

Yemen's Houthi forces attacked "a vital target" in Israel's Red Sea port city of Eilat with a number of drones, the Iran-aligned group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said on Saturday.

Two senior leaders of the Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian armed group involved in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, were killed in an Israeli airstrike near Damascus on Thursday, a source within the group confirmed to AFP on Saturday.

An Italian air force plane took off on Saturday carrying more than 15 tons of humanitarian aid to be delivered to the population in Gaza, a defence ministry statement said.

Turkey's Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com's gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday.

Ship traffic resumed on Turkey's Dardanelles Strait in one direction on Saturday after an earlier halt due to mechanical failure on a bulk carrier, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure said.

Morocco successfully repelled 644 cyber attacks in 2024, Minister Delegate in charge of the National Defence Administration, Abdellatif Loudiyi, announced during a parliamentary session on Friday. 

Lebanese officials fear a disputed clause in the U.S.-brokered cease-fire proposal for Gaza and Lebanon granting both sides a "right to self-defense" could evolve into "freedom of movement" for Israel.

Iran's condensate exports to China and the United Arab Emirates will probably decline if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tightens sanctions on Tehran, but supply to Venezuela would continue, analysts at consultancy FGE said.