TEHRAN -- Iran vowed on Monday to take "decisive" action against the "aggressor" behind the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, accusing Israel of carrying out a "cowardly" attack.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the killing of Haniyeh, who was in Iran for the swearing-in of President Masoud Pezeshkian, was a "flagrant violation" of international law. (Iran-Israel-Tension)

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KHARTOUM -- At least 32 people were killed and 107 others wounded due to the recent torrential rains and floods that hit several Sudanese states, Sudan's Health Ministry announced on Monday.

"Seven states were affected by the rains and floods, and 5,575 homes were damaged," Al-Fadil Mohamed Mahmoud, director of the general directorate of health emergencies at the ministry, said in a statement. (Sudan-Floods-Toll)

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BEIRUT -- A member of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed, and another was wounded on Monday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike targeting a motorcycle in the village of Ebba in southern Lebanon, Lebanese military and official sources told Xinhua.

The military sources, who requested anonymity, said that an Israeli drone fired two air-to-ground missiles at the motorcycle, killing the driver Ali Jawad Badreddine and wounding his companion. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrike-Casualty)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed on Monday the ongoing escalation in the Middle East and ways to contain it.

During a phone conversation, Abdelatty briefed Blinken on the contacts he had made with the foreign ministers of a number of countries in the region, including Iran and Lebanon, as well as some European countries, with the aim of containing the ongoing escalation in the region, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. (Egypt-Middle East-Escalation) Enditem

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