
Judge Tarek Bitar has postponed all interrogations planned for February due to the "lack of cooperation" from the prosecutor's office, without setting new dates.

Lebanon's caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said there was some material damage but no casualties, and called for old buildings with cracks to be evacuated.

Pretrial detention is routinely used in Egypt to imprison journalists, activists and politicians for months, and sometimes even years.

"Since Saturday, the occupation army has been raiding the camp every night, with drones overhead and releasing large amounts of tear gas onto the camp's streets, but this time it was different because there was heavy gunfire for a long period."

The Jamshko camp in Iraq's Kurdistan region is home to hundreds of Yazidi families who were displaced after the Islamic State group began committing genocide against the religious minority in 2014.

Turkey is in one of the most seismically volatile areas in the world - making devastating earthquakes all but inevitable for the country.

After Turkey's devastating earthquakes, at least two aftershocks were felt in several provinces in northern Iraq with no casualties reported.

The goal is to "protect Iraqi banks and central banks from sanctions" while clearing debts owed to Russian companies, said Fuad Hussein.

The earthquake hit parts of Syria already ravaged by years of conflict, neglect and infrastructural decline.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich unveiled his plans to establish a new 'settlement administration' that would oversee illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.