Despite a brief emergency alert signalling a hijacking, the Israeli prime minister's office confirmed this had been ruled out.

Flight-tracking data shows the Tel Aviv-bound flight suddenly changed course over northwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

A “violent incident” between two pilots caused a FlyDubai aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv to divert to Saudi Arabia, sources have told CNN.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning with security officials over the incident.

King appoints Fatima Ezzahra El-Mansouri over presumed favourite and head of Royal Moroccan Football Federation Fouzi Lekjaa

King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri on Tuesday as Morocco’s first woman prime minister after her liberal-centrist party came out on top in a September 23 parliamentary election, the royal palace said.

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, a lawyer and politician from the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party, is only the second woman to lead the government of a North African country.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI appointed Marrakesh Mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as prime minister, making her the first woman tasked with forming and leading a government in the history of the North African kingdom.

A suspected plot ⁠against ⁠a British airbase ⁠used by US forces to strike Iran was ​thwarted when police were called by one of the same ‌men later arrested at the ‌site, The Times newspaper said on Wednesday.

The five suspects, who haven't been named, were initially held over suspected explosives offenses and later also arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism.

Authorities in Britain freed five men arrested on suspicion of preparing a terror attack on an RAF base used by the U.S. military to fly Iran missions.

Britain's ⁠counter-terrorism ⁠police said on ⁠Tuesday that no improvised explosive ​devices had been found as part ‌of an investigation into ‌a suspected plot targeting a ⁠British ⁠airbase used by US forces to strike Iran.

Professor Azeem Ibrahim says Russia’s heavily militarized Baltic enclave has become a testing ground for hybrid warfare targeting European infrastructure.

Russia has warned NATO that it would be ⁠ready ⁠to resort to nuclear weapons if the ⁠Western alliance tried to cut off or attack the Russian region of Kaliningrad. WHERE AND WHAT IS ​KALININGRAD? It's a highly militarised exclave - separated from the main mass of Russian territory - that is wedged between NATO members Poland and Lithuania and also borders ‌the Baltic Sea.

Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons against Nato countries if the western military alliance were to hinder access to its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad. In a document sent to Nato this week,

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks during a panel discussion with US Ambassador to NATO Matthew G. Whitaker on the future of the alliance hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in Des Moines,

The last U.S. troops were slated to leave Iraq on Wednesday under an agreement between Baghdad and Washington, a move celebrated by Iran-backed groups but which some other Iraqis found concerning, particularly in the Kurdish region.

For years there had been about 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq.

An Iraqi demand that tens of thousands of militants turn in their weapons falls short in a conflict fed by America’s war with Iran.

This is actually the second time the US has left Iraq. The first was in 2011, when Washington ended the occupation which began with the 2003 invasion. But US forces returned in 2014 to lead a

The United Nations Refugee Agency on Wednesday said it was concerned by Malaysia’s return of more than 1,000 people to Myanmar because ​of the dire humanitarian conditions there.

He has announced a plan to send the Rohingya home; the first set of roughly 1,500 left on Tuesday. Mr Anwar insists that Myanmar’s junta has agreed to take them back. But more than 160 civil-society groups warn that the returnees face violence and forced conscription amid a brutal civil war.

Malaysia starts sending thousands of refugees back to war-torn Myanmar. Human rights groups say it risks returning Rohingya muslims to danger. We hear from a fearful refugee. Also in the programme: Israel's military says more than a hundred settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank;

Malaysia began repatriating Myanmar nationals under a voluntary program despite warnings from the United Nations refugee agency and rights groups that conditions in the country remain unsafe for them.