Middle East

Approximately 10 parliamentarians who were seeking to impeach the president, and rally other members of the 290 seat body to their side, back down.

But help from Beijing risks alienating the United States, which has suggested such a move could come at the cost of Lebanese-US ties.

“In the last years of his service, [Reza Asgari] joined the CIA; he sold information about our missiles to the CIA and took money from them. He was identified, tried and sentenced to death," says Iranian official.

President of the petroleum pipelines company, Emad Abdel-Qader, says initial reports indicate that an “external party” had possibly punctured the line.

Despite severe shortage of medical equipment and testing kits, PA leadership prefers to leave UAE shipment on the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport rather than accept Arab "normalization" with Israel.

Palestinian Authority detains several people who interviewed with Channel 13 News and expressed support for Israel's plan to extend sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria, something Ramallah vehemently opposes.

"If a regime or a government is involved in the Natanz incident, Iran will react decisively," top official warns.

Former minister Ahmed Fatfat says that the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that all but controls parliament is preventing reform. Lebanon’s top Christian cleric Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai says the country cannot be dictated to in a manner that isolates it from its allies.

Earlier Saturday, unidentified warplanes strike a convoy in eastern Syria, reportedly killing 35 pro-Iranian militiamen and two high-ranking commanders.

"If Mr Biden is elected in November, we hope that it will be a totally different dynamic," Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh says amid organized effort to influence campaign policies.