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Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah issued a decree on Sunday accepting the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Emad al-Atiqi.

At least 14 people were killed late on Sunday in multiple Israeli strikes targeting the vicinity of Masyaf, a city in Syria's Hama province, Syria's state news agency reported on Monday.

A Turkish soldier was killed on Monday in a clash with militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and Turkish airstrikes killed many militants, the Defence Ministry said.

Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday's election on Sunday, but a rival candidate alleged irregularities in the count and fewer than half of registered voters cast ballots.

The Qatar Red Crescent and the U.N. agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) signed an agreement on Sunday, with $4.5 million from a Qatari state development fund, to aid more than 4,400 stranded Palestinian workers and patients from Gaza in the West Bank.

Floods from torrential rains killed at least 11 people in the province of Tata in southeast Morocco, authorities said in a preliminary death toll on Sunday.

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian is set to travel to Iraq on Wednesday, marking his first foreign visit since his election in July, the official Iranian news agency Irna reported on Sunday.

A candidate in Algeria's presidential election has alleged irregularities in the vote count, with results due later on Sunday expected to give President Abdulmadjid Tebboune a second term in office.

Israeli troops shot and killed a Turkish-American woman who had been taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian and Turkish officials said.

Indian and Emirati officials are expected to review their trade agreement this week amid concerns raised by Indian industry over a sharp increase in imports of precious metals from the United Arab Emirates, people familiar with the matter said.

The global edition of the International AI Olympiad began on Sunday in Riyadh, with teams from 25 countries set to participate in the event. 

Venezuela's former presidential opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has left for Spain in the wake of the South American country's contested election, Venezuelan and Spanish officials said on Saturday night after a day of rising diplomatic tensions.