Iraq will send a delegation to Lebanon to support the probe into the killing of a former lawmaker in Beirut, a security official told AFP on Wednesday.

Former Sunni Iraqi politician Ahmed al-Alwani was found strangled to death in a Beirut apartment on Monday night.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem hailed on Wednesday President Donald Trump's recent midterm defeat, describing it as "an opportunity" for his Iran-backed Lebanese movement and other opponents of the U.S. in the region.

Trump's Republican Party suffered massive losses in last week's elections, in which the Democrats seized control of Congress.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said a tanker caught fire early Wednesday after striking a naval mine while traveling along an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway, Iranian state media reported.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, a British military agency that monitors maritime safety, said a tanker was involved in an incident while transiting the strait.

More than one million people in Lebanon face acute food insecurity, the United Nations warned on Wednesday, following years of war and economic crisis.

Lebanon has endured two successive wars with neighboring Israel since 2023 and remains mired in an unprecedented economic collapse triggered seven years ago.

Large crowds gathered in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday to mourn the deaths of dozens of people including children, killed last week in strikes blamed on Saudi Arabia.

Mourners prayed at the Mosque of the People in Sanaa, renamed by the Iran-backed Houthis after they took over the capital, chanting "death to America! Death to Israel!" according to an AFP photographer present.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed their biggest ever release of prisoners after two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, US envoy Jared Kushner told reporters on Wednesday.

"One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we're going to finalise the numbers tomorrow," he said.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, Kushner said at the end of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, before travelling to Dublin to debrief Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

Kushner said the meeting with Putin would "go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed because we see some openings.

Russia and Ukraine have resumed U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi for a second day, Kyiv's chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Wednesday.

"We are starting the second day of negotiations. First, a trilateral format together with the United States and Russia. After that, we will hold a separate meeting with our European partners. We are working," Umerov said on Telegram.

Iran's foreign ministry on Wednesday designated Argentina's navy and air force as terrorist organizations, following a similar move by Buenos Aires months earlier.

In late March, Argentina designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological arm of the military, as a terror organization, citing the IRGC's support for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

A former member of the Iraqi parliament who spent over a decade in prison in his home country was found dead in a Beirut apartment days after arriving in Lebanon, Lebanese security and judicial officials said Tuesday.

The officials said Ahmed al-Alwani arrived in Beirut flying in from the northern Iraqi city of Irbil five days ago. Al-Alwani had reserved a room at a hotel in Beirut's commercial Hamra district, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.