Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz yesterday confirmed that troops remain at five positions in southern Lebanon past a pullout deadline, vowing action against any truce violation by militant group Hezbollah.

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham dismissed on Monday President Donald Trump’s proposal to seize Gaza and force out the Palestinians, while Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal said he expects Arab states to put forward a workable alternative.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday.

Top US and Russian diplomats met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their fractured relations, the first such discussions since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who took office in July, has recently revived the idea

Israeli troops had started withdrawing Monday from some border villages

The launch comes as the world's richest man is deploying the enormous powers granted him by US President Donald Trump to restructure and dismantle federal agencies

Around 20 lawsuits have been filed in various federal courts challenging Musk's authority, which have led to differing results.

A Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people onboard crash landed Monday at the Toronto airport, officials said, flipping upside down and leaving at least 17 people injured but causing no fatalities

A passenger bus plunged into an 800-meter-deep abyss in southern Bolivia on Monday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 15, police and local media said

Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia earlier in the day from Israel where he began his first visit to the region as the top US diplomat

Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna has expressed his displeasure over piles of new petitions filed in the matter involving the Places of Worship Act, 1991, which stops a lawsuit from being filed to reclaim a place of worship or change its character.

The Taiwan Strait does not belong to China and any attempts to create tension threaten global security, the island’s defence ministry said yesterday, after Beijing criticised Canada for sailing a warship through the sensitive waterway.

Iran said yesterday that US and Israeli threats against it were a blatant violation of international law and that they could not “do a damn thing” to hurt Tehran.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday he saw no reason for Europeans to take part in Ukraine truce talks, accusing them of wanting to “continue war” in Ukraine.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sparked alarm by seeking access to a system with the US tax office that has detailed financial data about millions of Americans, US media reported.

Latest request is for DOGE officials to have broad access to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) systems, property and datasets

US President Donald Trump sidelined Kyiv and its European backers last week when he called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin

Afghan delegation plans to "exchange views with Japanese government officials during their stay"

The talks come after President Donald Trump last week spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone