Hamas has denied reports that some of its leaders have moved from Qatar to Turkey.

In an official statement, sources within Hamas said on Monday that the claims spread by Israeli media were "pure rumours that Israel periodically attempts to promote."

On Sunday, Israeli media reported that several Hamas leaders based abroad had recently moved from Qatar to Turkey, a shift that could impact the course of negotiations on a ceasefire and the release of hostages, news agency reported.

A youth was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The ministry said in a press release that 18-year-old Nour Arafat died from gunshot wounds to his chest, abdomen, and shoulder after being shot in the al-Masaken al-Sha'biya neighborhood of Nablus, new agency reported.

Local sources and eyewitnesses told that clashes erupted after Israeli military forces raided the neighborhood in eastern Nablus, during which soldiers fired live ammunition.

Arafat, critically injured in the clash, was later transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead, said the sources.

A homeless man killed two people and critically wounded another one in a series of random stabbing in Manhattan, said New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The 51-year-old man, who had been arrested eight times before, was arrested shortly after his attack on the third victim, news agency reported.

Investigation is going on and law enforcement departments in New York City are not looking for any additional suspects at this time, according to Adams.

"It is a clear, clear example of the criminal justice system, mental health system that continues to fail New Yorkers," Adams said.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said 604 migrants were intercepted and returned off the coast of Libya in the past week.

The migrants intercepted between November 10-16 include 34 women and 11 children, IOM said in a statement, adding that seven bodies of migrants were recovered while 54 others remain missing, news agency reported.

So far this year, 20,231 migrants have been intercepted, while 515 died and 830 others went missing off the Libyan coast, it said.

At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in central Beirut, al-Jadeed local TV channel reported.

The airstrike targeted an area densely populated in the Zkak Blat area. Ambulances rushed to transport victims to hospitals, calling upon citizens to donate blood of all types, news agency reported.

The airstrike, marking the second day in a row that Israel attacks central Beirut, caused fear among citizens, with many of them leaving their houses to seek safer shelters elsewhere.

The target of the airstrike has not yet been identified.

On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike struck the office of Syria's Ba'ath Party located between the area of Ras al-Nabaa and the Sodeco Square commercial center in central Beirut with two air-to-surface missiles, killing Hezbollah Media Chief Mohammad Afif and seven other people.

Google is committing $20 million in cash and $2 million in cloud credits to a new funding initiative designed to help scientists and researchers unearth the next great scientific breakthroughs using artificial intelligence (AI), Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said.

The announcement via Google.org said it will help Google ingratiate itself with some of the leading scientific minds, through direct cash injections and by providing infrastructure to power their projects, news agency reported.

The winning applicants should be using "AI to address increasingly complex problems at the intersections of different disciplines of science," according to a blog post from Maggie Johnson, Google VP and global head of Google.org.

Farmers took to the streets across France to protest against the trade agreement that the European Union (EU) plans to sign by the end of the year with the South American trade bloc Mercosur.

France's largest farmer union, the National Federation of Agricultural Holders' Unions (FNSEA), announced on Monday evening that 85 demonstrations have been organized across the country, but without blockades on motorways, news agency reported.

The goal of the demonstrations was not to annoy the public, but to remind them of the urgent and dramatic situation facing the country's agriculture, the FNSEA said.

The EU and Mercosur states - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - reached a comprehensive trade agreement in 2019.

Speaking Monday evening to the French public television channel France 5, Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, called the EU-Mercosur trade deal "unfavorable," urging European farmers to be on the same frontline against the deal.

A top Iranian maritime official strongly condemned the sanctions imposed earlier in the day by Britain and the European Union (EU) on Iran's shipping sector over its alleged transfer of missiles and drones to Russia, the official news agency IRNA reported.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), a new target on Europe's sanctions list, is completely a commercial institution that carries commercial goods from Iran and other countries and is among the biggest shipping companies in West Asia, Managing Director of the Ports and Maritime Organisation of Iran Ali Akbar Safaei told IRNA in London, news agecy reported.

Calling the accusations by the EU and Britain "completely baseless," Safaei said IRISL's efforts in the Caspian Sea were entirely focused on importing essential goods to Iran.

Authorities warned on Monday that a bushfire in Australia that has destroyed at least one home could continue burning for several weeks.

The bushfire near the town of Kadnook, over 300 km west of Melbourne, was one of several that ignited in southern Australia amid hot and windy conditions on Saturday, forcing evacuations of residents across the western part of the state of Victoria.

At least one home was destroyed by the fire and authorities believe two more may have burnt down in addition to agricultural losses.

The situation eased on Sunday night as temperatures dropped and some rain fell in the area but a "watch and act" warning remained in place on Monday, with residents told it is not yet safe to return.

Twenty-one cabinet ministers were sworn in before Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday morning at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.

Deputy ministers will be sworn in later, it was announced at the event.

After Dissanayake won the September 21 presidential election, he governed with a cabinet composed of Harini Amarasuriya and Vijitha Herath, reports news agency.

The new cabinet ministers were chosen among the 159 members of parliament from the National People's Power (NPP) elected in the November 14 parliamentary election.