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A Swiss citizen working on a U.S.-funded aid project has been arrested in Burkina Faso, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland and a foreign official said on Tuesday.

The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe.

U.S. Africa Command General Michael Langley and Chargé d'affaires Jeremy Berndt met Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar, the U.S Embassy in Libya said on social media platform X on Tuesday.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late on Monday expressing deep concern "over the deteriorating situation in Libya resulting from unilateral decisions."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest of messaging app Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France as an example of how other countries also imposed controls.

Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip in "a complex rescue operation", the military said on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was abducted by Hamas-led gunmen on Oct. 7.

Tunisia's administrative court on Tuesday upheld an appeal by prominent politician Abdellatif Mekki, allowing him to resume his candidacy in a presidential election expected on Oct. 6, judicial and political sources told Reuters.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has requested consular access to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, following his arrest in France on charges related to organized crime.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a far-right figure in the current Israeli government, has ignited yet another controversy by questioning the long-standing status quo on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. 

France's Socialists and Greens will not participate in further talks with President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the country's political deadlock, their leaders said on Tuesday, calling on their supporters to hold peaceful protests instead.

Torrential rains caused floods that overwhelmed the Arbaat Dam © Mena Today 

Hundreds of migrants took advantage of a thick mist to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday and early on Monday, local police said.