Iran and Saudi Arabia take further steps to sever commercial ties today, intensifying a feud between the regional rivals, as Tehran announced a ban on imports from Saudi Arabia and Saudi groups called for boycotts of Iranian products.

Saudi warplanes "deliberately" strike Iran's embassy in Yemen in an air raid that wounds staff, Tehran says as tensions between the two regional powers mount.

At least 65 people are killed when one of Libya's worst truck bombs in years exploded at a police training centre in the town of Zliten.

Air strikes led by Saudi Arabia have hit a care centre for blind people, residents have said.

Bangladesh has condemned the recent attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad.

Saudi Arabia has sought two lakh female workers from Bangladesh, says Nurul Islam, minister for expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry.

Though Egypt joins the Saudi-led 34-nation Islamic Military Coalition against terrorism and violent extremism, it will not join any military action, says its envoy in Bangladesh.

Saudi Arabia used an attack on its embassy in Tehran as a pretext to fuel tensions, Iran's foreign ministry says in response to Riyadh's severing of relations.

Bahrain and Sudan both severe relations with Iran, and the UAE has downgraded its diplomatic team. after the Saudi embassy in Tehran is attacked amid a row over the execution of a Shia Muslim cleric.

A Saudi Arabian man is shot dead in the kingdom's Eastern Province when security officers came under fire from an unidentified source, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reports.

Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran, responding to the storming of its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh's execution of a Shia Muslim cleric.

Saudi Arabia executes 47 for terrorism, mostly suspected al-Qaeda members but also a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, Interior Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television.

Two people die and seven others are injured after a gunman opened fire with an automatic rifle at a bar in Tel Aviv, Israeli police say.

Fire engulfed a 63-storey skyscraper in downtown Dubai, but there appears to be no injuries, a civil defence official says.

Iran's navy conducted rocket tests last week near US warships and other commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the American military has said.

The Iraqi army, emboldened by the recent recapturing of the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State, is now eyeing another IS stronghold: Fallujah.

Three months of Russian air strikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group said yesterday. Russia began

The United States continues to spy on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's communications despite promising to curtail the hacking of its allies, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Contacted by AFP, the White House did not deny the report, which cites several serving and former US officials, but stressed the importance of its ongoing close ties with Israel.

Nasser al-Bahri - Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard - has died after a long illness, medical sources in Yemen have told the BBC. They said Bahri, a Yemeni

A rare UN-backed deal between Syria's warring sides saw hundreds of fighters and civilians evacuate three towns yesterday, as bomb blasts in the regime-held city of Homs killed at least 14 people. President Bashar al-Assad's regime has agreed to several ceasefires with rebel groups in the past but yesterday's evacuation plan was one of the most elaborate in the nearly five-year war.