Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, vowing that the Israeli army would stay in the area as long as Hezbollah remained a "threat".

His comments came after Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement under U.S. sponsorship last week to supposedly pave the way for peace between them and disarm Hezbollah.

The hundreds of millions who use Meta-owned messenger WhatsApp to chat with family, friends or businesses will no longer need to share phone numbers under a coming update, the company said Monday.

Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes killed five people including a child in the Palestinian territory.

Rescuers from around the world pushed Tuesday to save any final survivors trapped under mountains of rubble after Venezuela's massive quakes that killed over 1,700 people, with tens of thousands still unaccounted for.

Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday that Britain would spend a "record" of almost £300 billion ($397 billion) over the next four years to modernize its armed forces in the face of rising threats.

Iran will respond to any U.S. violation of the memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in the Middle East, its foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday, as delegations from both sides were expected in Qatar for indirect talks on the deal.

"We will not leave any action unanswered. As Iran's powerful armed forces have demonstrated, any act of aggression against the objectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be met with an immediate and decisive response," Esmaeil Baqaei told reporters at a weekly press conference.

More than one million undocumented migrants in Spain have sought legal status under a scheme that has defied a European crackdown on irregular immigration, the government said on Tuesday, the final day for submissions.

Mediator Qatar said on Tuesday that no high-level meetings or direct talks between the United States and Iran were planned in Doha after Washington said it had sent a top delegation for negotiations.

"To the best of my knowledge, there are no direct meetings scheduled between the two parties in the coming days," foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari told reporters in Doha, adding that the American team would meet with mediators. "To my knowledge there is no high-level meeting between the two sides."

The UAE has said its nationals can travel to Lebanon, effective on Monday, lifting a weeks-long ban in place because of the Middle East war and concerns about Iran's influence.

The foreign ministry announced "it will allow UAE citizens to travel to the sisterly Lebanese Republic, starting from Monday, June 29, 2026," the official WAM news agency reported.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday met with U.S. Central Command chief Admiral Brad Cooper at the Baabda Palace, in the presence of U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Beirut Keith Hannigan and Chief of Staff of the 2024 ceasefire mechanism team, General Joseph Clearfield.