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In a recent statement, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné issued a stark warning about the potential for a "large-scale confrontation" between Israel and Hezbollah. 

Turks punished President Tayyip Erdogan and his party on Sunday in nationwide local elections that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president's chief future rival.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pointed fingers at Hamas for toughening their negotiation stance amid efforts to establish a truce in the ongoing conflict with the Palestinian Islamist movement in Gaza

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in a phone call on Sunday that Ankara would back a candidate to be NATO's new chief based on its expectations and needs, the Turkish presidency said.

The Israeli military said it killed a Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on a vehicle in Lebanon on Sunday, identifying him as Ismail Al-Zin, a commander in the anti-tank missile unit of Hezbollah's Radwan Forces.

Indian opposition parties united on Sunday to protest against the arrest of a prominent leader weeks before a national election, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party of rigging the vote and harassing them with large tax demands.

A drone strike on Sunday killed a Sunni tribal leader in Kifri town in Diyala province east of Iraq, police and security officials said.

Stock markets in the Gulf fell on Sunday, led by the Saudi index, after the U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Powell indicated the latest inflation data did not undermine the central bank's baseline outlook.

Iraq on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding with Siemens Energy and Schlumberger to tackle curb gas flaring and channel the captured resource to boost the country’s power generation capacity.

In a chilling reminder of the persistent threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS), recent reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) have highlighted a surge in fatal attacks against Syrian soldiers. 

Pope Francis called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages in an Easter Sunday address that marked the most important day on the Christian calendar by deploring the suffering caused by wars.

Airports in Sofia and Bucharest on Sunday removed passport check points for those departing to or arriving from most European Union member states as Bulgaria and Romania partially joined the Schengen open-travel zone.