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The Israeli army on Monday said it targeted a group of four people who had planted explosives along the border fence with Syria on the Golan Heights.

Venezuela's main opposition parties on Sunday pledged to boycott legislative elections scheduled for Dec. 6, saying they will be rigged by the ruling socialist party and that taking part would amount to "collaborating with the dictatorship's strategy."

Oliver EkmanLarsson scored the first of Arizonas three firstperiod goals, a healthy Phil Kessel had two assists and the Coyotes held on to beat the Nashville Predators 43 on Sunday to open their Stanley Cup qualifier series.

Switzerland should tighten restrictions to curb the coronavirus again following a recent spike in cases, in order to prevent the need for much harsher lockdown measures in future, the new head of the country's coronavirus taskforce said.

The ship's company Hurtigruten had earlier indicated 33 positive tests. The infected crew were all Filipino apart from three people from France, Norway and Germany.

The United Arab Emirates has begun startup operations in the initial unit of its first nuclear power plant, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said on Saturday.

The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs said on Saturday that Turkey should stop interfering in Arab affairs, criticising comments on Libya made by Turkey's defence minister.

A small plane which crashed shortly after takeoff on a flight from a remote airstrip in Papua New Guinea to Australia last week was overloaded with more than 500 kg (1,100 lb) of cocaine, police said on Saturday.

A military court in eastern Libya has sentenced a local photojournalist to 15 years in prison on vague terrorismrelated charges, prompting an outcry Friday from human rights groups.

President Donald Trump still supports Anthony Tata, his pick for undersecretary of defense for policy, despite the abrupt cancellation of Thursday's Senate confirmation hearing for the divisive nominee, the White House said on Friday.

Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia took part in a symbolic stoning of the devil on Friday, but maintained social distancing in a ritual that usually brings millions of worshippers from all over the world shoulder to shoulder.

A massive sea and air search was under way on Friday for eight missing U.S. Marines off the Southern California coast after a training mishap on Thursday also resulted in one Marine dead and two others injured, the Marine Corps said in a statement.

There has likely been a slight increase in the number of people in England testing positive for COVID19 and in the overall incidence of infections in recent weeks, Britain's Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Thudi, during his college days, established relationships with and defrauded several individuals who were foreign citizens living in the United States.

Iraqs government said Thursday that since last October when antigovernment protests erupted in the country, a total of 560 protesters and members of the security forces have been killed in the violence.