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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to consolidate Israel's fractious right-wing parties ahead of a Tuesday deadline in order to avoid an election loss forecast by opinion polls.

Yemen's Tehran-backed Houthis attacked four cities in the south of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a major expansion of the six-month-old Middle East war.

Israel said on Tuesday it was closing Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem in response to plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Britain on Tuesday published legislation to introduce tougher sanctions on Iran, expanding trade restrictions and powers to target ships as part of what it described as a wider effort to curb Tehran's nuclear programme and other hostile activities.

Israel's Ministry of Finance released a set of headline macroeconomic indicators ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, a major holiday marking the start of the Hebrew calendar year and traditionally a moment for reflection and stocktaking, including on the state of the economy.

The nuclear reactor Syria had nearly completed in 2007 when Israeli jets destroyed it was of a type that could quickly produce fissile material usable in nuclear weapons, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.

Vision Bank, the Islamic bank headquartered in Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and wholly owned by GII Group, has announced the launch of a new SME financing proposition, marking a significant milestone in the Bank's strategy to support modern businesses with solutions tailored to how companies operate, trade and grow.

Nearly nine in 10 Spaniards blame Morocco for the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta in late July, while a majority rate Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's handling of the crisis as "bad" or "very bad", according to an opinion poll released on Monday that also showed a drop in support for Sanchez's party.

Thousands of people gathered in front of a church in Belgrade to pay respects to former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.  

Germany asked the International Court of Justice on Monday to throw out a case brought by Nicaragua which accuses Berlin of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention because it supplies arms to Israel.

The third edition of the Hili Forum opened in Abu Dhabi on Monday under the theme “Gulf at Crossroads: Conflict, Consequences and Course Correction,” convening policymakers, diplomats, academics and international experts as the region confronts overlapping security, economic and technological pressures.

The United Arab Emirates is building alternative routes for its energy exports and trade to ensure they are not "held hostage" by the ongoing war with Iran, UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said on Monday.