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At least 12 people were killed and 33 injured in Egypt on Monday after a bus overturned on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast, the Egyptian health ministry said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Monday that Israel would continue to strike Hezbollah "without mercy," including in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday urged other European Union members to support Madrid and Ireland’s call for the suspension of the EU's free trade agreement with Israel, citing the country's actions in Gaza and Lebanon.

VEON, the owner of Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar, said on Monday that it plans to move its group headquarters from the Netherlands to the United Arab Emirates, in an attempt to boost visibility among Gulf investors.

The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party criticised President Alexander Van der Bellen's handling of coalition talks on Monday for the first time since the FPO won last month's parliamentary election but fell far short of a majority.

The European Union agreed on Monday to impose sanctions on seven people and seven organisations, including airline Iran Air, for their links to Iranian transfers of ballistic missiles to Russia.

Britain has imposed sanctions against Iranian individuals and organisations after Iran's attack on Israel on Oct. 1, Britain's Foreign Office said on Monday.

Millions of Israelis rushed to shelters on Monday as sirens sounded across central Israel in response to projectiles fired from Lebanon, the military said.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday threatened Tehran "will use all its options" to respond to the assassination of senior Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed alongside former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut last month. 

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Monday accused the United Nations' UNIFIL peacekeepers in south Lebanon of being a "useless" force that failed to protect Israelis from Hezbollah attacks and called on it to withdraw as fighting ramps up.

French President Emmanuel Macron continues to advocate for a "general de-escalation" in the Middle East, recently urging Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to support efforts to reduce tensions in the region.

Since 2006, the United Nations has been unable to enforce the terms of Resolution 1701 on Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.