Israel on Monday launched a scheme allowing Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly abroad from an airport in the Negev desert.

Forty Palestinians were aboard the first flight from Ramon airport near the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, a spokeswoman for the Israel Airports Authority told AFP.

The euro fell back under dollar parity on Monday, hit by expectations the Federal Reserve will stick to its interest rate-hiking plans.

In morning trade, the European single currency slid as low as $0.9990, dented also by growing fears of winter energy shortages in Europe.

Israel on Monday warned Hezbollah that any attack on its gas assets could spark war, after the Iran-backed Lebanese group threatened to "sever" Israel's hands if it taps a disputed offshore field.

The warning from Defense Minister Benny Gantz comes amid lengthy negotiations between Lebanon and Israel to settle a dispute over their maritime border.

Two bodies were recovered on Monday from a shrine in Iraq's Karbala province after a landslide caused it to partially collapse, bringing the overall toll to seven dead, rescue services said.

"Unfortunately, we found this morning two bodies, a man and a woman", under the rubble of Qattarat al-Imam Ali, Jawdat Abdelrahman, director of the civil defense media department, told AFP.

Two Albanian soldiers were injured while trying to stop two Russians and a Ukrainian national from entering a military plant, the country's defense ministry said late Saturday evening.

The daughter of Alexader Dugin, a hardline Russian ideologue close to President Vladimir Putin, has been killed in a car bombing on Moscow's outskirts, authorities said on Sunday.

Russia could do something particularly "cruel" during the upcoming week as Ukraine marks 31 years of independence, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

At least eight civilians have been killed in an Islamist militant attack on a popular hotel in the Somali capital, an official said Saturday, as security forces continued to battle gunmen barricaded inside.

A drone was shot down over the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Saturday, a local official said.

The French presidency on Friday denied any "obstacles" hindering Russian agriculture exports, which the Kremlin claimed after a call between President Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron.