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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.

Israeli emergency services announced the deaths of three people in a shooting attack on Sunday at a crossing point between the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank, and Jordan.

Filmmaker Sarah Friedland sparked outrage with her comments at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Saturday. 

Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Mohammad al-Sadeq said that Iran's retaliation following the death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was imminent.

A political adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has rejected recent allegations that employees at the premier's office have been spying on and wire-tapping senior officials and politicians.

Three Lebanese paramedics were killed, and two others were wounded — one critically — in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Lebanon's health ministry reported on Saturday.

Two executives from a former crypto investment platform accused of fraud were arrested in Istanbul earlier this year, Turkish media reported. 

The head of the CIA, who is also the chief U.S. negotiator for an end to the Gaza war and release of hostages held by Hamas, said a more detailed ceasefire proposal would be made in the next several days. 

Morocco has stopped 45,015 people from illegally migrating to Europe since January and busted 177 migrant trafficking gangs, Morocco's state news agency MAP reported on Friday, citing interior ministry data.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel.