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Three people were killed and 20 others injured in an explosion in the Syria's eastern Deir el-Zor region.

Israel's El Al Airlines has agreed to pay a bigger share of its security costs from this year, it said on Monday, under a new deal with the government that local media estimate will cost the airline around $10 million a year.

Mexico will wait and see if U.S. President Donald Trump goes through with his threat to slap tariffs on its southern neighbor on Tuesday, the nation's president said on Monday, adding that Mexico has back-up plans in case the tariffs go into place.

A plan for Gaza drawn up by Egypt as a counter to U.S. President Donald Trump's ambition for a Middle East Riviera would sideline Hamas and replace it with interim bodies controlled by Arab, Muslim and Western states, according to a draft seen by Reuters.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first official foreign visit since his election in January. 

Egypt and the European Commission have signed a 90 million euro ($93.9 million) soft funding agreement to enhance food security, the Egyptian ministry of international cooperation said on Monday.

The Kremlin said on Monday that someone would have to force Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make peace and that the Ukrainian leader's public clash with U.S. President Donald Trump had shown just how hard it would be to find a way to end the war.

France is preparing to deport "several hundred" Algerian nationals deemed to have "dangerous profiles," according to an announcement made on Monday by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. 

One person was killed and four were wounded in a stabbing attack at a bus station in the city of Haifa, Israel's ambulance service said, in what police described as a terrorist attack.

"No Other Land," a film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community, won the documentary feature film Oscar on Sunday, and its directors appealed to the world to help end the conflict and accused the United States of blocking a solution.

The CEO of Zorlu Holding, Cem Koksal, has been forced to resign after being accused of violating the religious freedom of his employees and briefly arrested, according to Turkish media reports on Sunday. A court has also banned him from traveling abroad as the legal proceedings continue.

For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's repressive regime.