Yemen faces a possible third wave of a cholera epidemic, the UN warned Thursday, following a jump in the number of suspected cases over recent weeks.

Violent clashes resumed late Thursday afternoon between rival militias south of the Libyan capital, just hours after a truce was announced to end fighting that has killed almost 30 people since Monday.

At least 27 people have been killed and 100 wounded in several days of fighting between rival militias near the Libyan capital, the health ministry said yesterday.

The United States said Wednesday that a UN report on possible war crimes in Yemen is "very concerning," calling on parties to the conflict to avoid violations.

Iran is sticking to the terms of its nuclear deal with world powers, a UN atomic watchdog report showed yesterday, despite ongoing uncertainty over its future.

The United Nations called on Russia, Iran and Turkey yesterday to forestall a battle in Syria's Idlib province which would affect millions of civilians and could see both militants and the government potentially using chlorine as a chemical weapon.

A Spanish NGO yesterday said it will halt its migrant rescue missions off Libya to support operations in Spain, as it denounced the "criminalisation" of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi yesterday appointed a string of new governors to key regions, the latest shake-up since winning re-election in March.

Israeli forces demolished the home of a Palestinian who carried out a deadly knife attack in a settlement in the occupied West Bank, the army said yesterday. Minor clashes broke out between Palestinians opposed to the raid and soldiers in the West Bank early yesterday.

All sides in Yemen's bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN investigators said yesterday, highlighting deadly air strikes, rampant sexual violence, and the recruitment of young children as soldiers.

Iran's parliament yesterday declared its dissatisfaction with President Hassan Rouhani, voting to reject his answers after grilling him over the deteriorating economy. It was the first time Rouhani had been summoned by parliament in his five years in power, and MPs demanded answers on unemployment, rising prices and the sharp depreciation of the rial, which has lost more than half of its value since April.

Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tyres screeching and clouds of dust billowing from the back.

Israel reopened its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip yesterday, a week after shutting it over violence along the border with the

Syrian rescue worker Samir Salim found his mother's body under their collapsed house, but there was no time for a funeral.

Iran yesterday demanded the UN's top court suspend US nuclear-linked sanctions against Tehran, accusing Washington of plotting its "economic strangulation".

Iran's parliament sacked the minister of economic affairs and finance yesterday, state media said, amid a sharp fall in the rial currency and a deterioration in the economic situation.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani yesterday rejected the resignations of the intelligence chief and the interior and defence ministers, as the government faces fierce criticism over an increasingly deadly insurgency.

The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Saad Erhabi, was killed in a strike on the group's hideouts in Nangarhar province on Saturday night, authorities said yesterday.

A suicide bomb blast killed at least two people yesterday outside an election commission office in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in his first purported speech in nearly a year, has called on followers to fight on despite recent defeats, according to an audio recording posted on the group's media outlet.