Lebanon may reduce or cancel the $11 million bail imposed for the release of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, his lawyer and a judicial official said.

Lebanese authorities arrested the younger Gadhafi in 2015 and accused him of withholding information about the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa Sadr in Libya.

New Yorkers are projected to elect leftist Zohran Mamdani as mayor Tuesday, opening a new front in opposition to Donald Trump and raising the specter the president will retaliate against the city where he made his name.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned against violations of the ceasefire in Gaza that halted two years of devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

Sudan's army-backed security and defense council is set to meet Tuesday to consider a U.S.-backed truce proposal, a government source told AFP, just over a week after paramilitaries overran the key city of El-Fasher.

The Russian army made steady gains in Ukraine in October, as it focused attacks on the eastern Donetsk region, an AFP analysis of data from the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) showed.

A strong earthquake killed at least 20 people in northern Afghanistan, authorities said Monday, just months after another deadly tremor that left the country reeling.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Tehran would only consider cooperation with the United States if it changed its policy in the region including supporting Israel.

Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza on Monday, bringing the total number handed over under the ceasefire deal to 270, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Hezbollah is attempting to "rearm" itself.

"We expect the Lebanese government to fulfill its commitment -- to disarm Hezbollah -- but it is clear we will exercise our right of self-defense under the terms of ceasefire," Netanyahu told the Israeli cabinet at its weekly meeting on Sunday.

Hundreds of people gathered in south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh on Sunday to mourn five Hezbollah members killed in recent Israeli attacks, an AFP correspondent said, as Israel warned of intensifying attacks against the Iran-backed group.

On Saturday, an Israeli strike killed four people in Kfar Rumman, Nabatiyeh district, the Lebanese health ministry and the Israeli military said.