Iraq plans to offer 10 gas exploration blocks to US companies during an upcoming visit by Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani to the United States, he announced on Saturday.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to conclude a ceasefire deal with Hamas to bring the remaining hostages home from Gaza, as the bodies of six of those taken on Oct. 7 were brought home.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Sunday for a strike to shut down the economy in order to pressure the government to reach a deal to release the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip.
The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture has reported substantial rainfall across eight regions of Saudi Arabia, with the National Center for Meteorology recording the highest rainfall in the Madinah region at 37.4 millimeters.
The partners in the offshore Aphrodite natural gas field have submitted a plan to the Cypriot government to develop the project at a cost of about $4 billion, Israel's NewMed Energy said on Sunday.
Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko accused his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, of continuing the war in Gaza to secure his political survival and called for Israel to be isolated to end what he described as "barbarity (...) sanctioned by certain Western countries."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that "Israel cannot eliminate either Hamas or Hezbollah" and should explore alternative, peaceful solutions to the conflict in Gaza.
Three Israelis were killed on Sunday when their vehicle came under fire near the city of Hebron in the West Bank, Israeli officials said.
Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were apparently killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday.
Libyan authorities have dismantled a human trafficking network operating in the country's southwest and arrested members of the group, the country's Attorney General's office said on its Facebook page on Saturday.
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