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In a statement on Syrian state media, Syria's army said most of the attacking drones were shot down, but did not say where they had come from. The Syrian army said on Monday drone attacks targeted several of its bases near the Iraqi border, a rare attack on Syrian positions since US-Israeli attacks on Iran a month ago triggered a war across the Middle East.
At least 28 people are killed in Afghanistan and 17 in Pakistan after heavy rainfall causes severe flooding.
Kuwait, like many other countries in the region, has not been spared by the Islamic regime despite having no relations with Israel. A shift in the Kuwaiti public’s perceptions of Israel began as the war with Iran broke out, Kuwaiti dissident Jasem Aljuraid told The Jerusalem Post late on Sunday night.
Ukraine has issued an apology to Finland after several of its drones crashed in Finnish territory a day earlier, the Foreign Ministry in Kiev said on Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi stressed that the drones had not targeted Finland deliberately.
A Ukrainian national has been arrested in western Germany on suspicion of spying for a Russian intelligence service, prosecutors said on Monday. According to the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, the man is alleged to have gathered information on behalf of Russian intelligence about a man in Germany who took part in combat operations with the Ukrainian military following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Polish government has said that new legislation to reduce fuel prices will take effect on Tuesday, as it tries to reduce the impact on consumers of increased global oil prices due to the Iran war. The Energy Ministry is still gathering data from wholesalers in order to set the maximum permitted price on this basis, Deputy Energy Minister Wojciech Wrochna told the radio station Rmf.
Nicusor Lacatus is jailed after admitting his role in moving migrants between the UK and France.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that 80% of the more than 900,000 Syrian nationals in Germany should return to their home country in the next three years. At a press conference with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Berlin on Monday, Merz said the leaders agreed that over the "longer term of the next three years," around "80% of the Syrians currently in Germany should return to their homeland.
The initiatives involved the Social Equality Ministry and the Advancement of the Status of Women, the Israel Association of Community Centers (IACC), Tzalir Fund, and Mifal HaPais. Thousands of senior citizens in Israel are set to receive Passover support this year through two separate initiatives: one aimed at making sure older Israelis did not spend Seder night alone and another designed to move elderly residents and people with disabilities from northern confrontation-line communities to prot