Iran said one of its most prominent nuclear scientists was assassinated yesterday in an attack on his car outside Tehran that it accused arch foe Israel of being behind.

Salma al-Najjar, a petrol station attendant in the Gaza Strip, sees her part-time job in larger terms than the traditional act of filling a customer’s tank.

Iran’s supreme leader dismissed the prospect of new negotiations with the West yesterday, even as the Tehran government spoke optimistically about the return of foreign companies in “the absence of Trump” and his sanctions.

Palestinian fighters fired a rocket into Israel, drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said yesterday.

More than 60 prisoners broke out of a Lebanese jail on Saturday and five of them were killed when their car hit a tree while under pursuit, security sources and the state news agency said.

War-torn Yemen is in imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen in decades, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned Friday.

Lebanon's authorities signed a contract this month with a German company to clear dangerous material stored for more than a decade at Beirut port, the site of a seismic blast in August that killed about 200 people and wrecked swathes of the capital.

Humanitarian agencies say a possible US designation of Yemen’s Houthi group as a foreign terrorist organisation would prevent lifesaving aid to the conflict-riven country, where fears of famine are rising.

Iran, Jordan and Morocco have recorded thousands of new Covid-19 infections in recent days, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that lockdowns could not stamp out the pandemic.

"The decision blatantly violates international law," said Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, dismissing it as yet another biased, pro-Israeli move by President Donald Trump's administration.

Britain condemned Israel's decision to advance construction of settlement buildings in an area of occupied West Bank.

On November 18, the Sultanate of Oman marked its 50th National Day anniversary. With firm resolve, Omani citizens continue to make more achievements under the wise leadership of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq