Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised police on Monday after ultra-Orthodox protesters clashed with security forces and torched a bus in protest against coronavirus restrictions.

Ten people were arrested in Israel after clashes between security forces and ultra-Orthodox citizens, police said Monday, amid disturbances that saw a bus torched in protest against coronavirus restrictions.

Three Iraqis convicted of "terrorism" were hanged on Monday, a security source said, days after a deadly double-tap suicide attack in a crowded Baghdad marketplace.

Israel on Monday extradited Malka Leifer, a former principal at a Jewish ultra-Orthodox school in Australia accused of dozens of sexual abuse cases of pupils there, ending a six-year legal wrangle.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday urged Egypt to cooperate with prosecutors seeking to try four Egyptian security officers over the torture and murder of an Italian student in Cairo.

Oman announced Sunday it will bar expatriates from certain jobs in an effort to create more employment opportunities for its citizens amid an economic downturn. 

Egypt began its Covid-19 immunization program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its citizens, with a doctor and a nurse receiving the Chinese-made Sinopharm jab.

Western Sahara's pro-independence Polisario Front bombarded the Guerguerat buffer zone under Moroccan control in the far south of the desert territory in an overnight attack Rabat described as part of a "propaganda war."

The emirate of Dubai has said it was slowing down its rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine due to a temporary delay in global deliveries. 

Over 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast by the Ocean Viking humanitarian vessel in just two days, a French NGO running the boat said on Saturday.