Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz both claimed victory after Israel's general elections on Tuesday as exit polls showed the two were neck and neck.

The exit polls from Israel's three main television stations appeared to show Netanyahu better placed to form a coalition with the help of smaller right-wing parties, but the final outcome was far from clear.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised the "great job" he said is being done by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, despite widespread criticism over Sisi's human rights record.

The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, has sewn his lips together after losing an appeal against a 20-year prison term, several sources said Tuesday.

The U.N. Security Council will hold urgent closed-door consultations on Wednesday on the crisis in Libya, where fighting has scuttled U.N.-led efforts to prepare for elections.

The U.N. said Tuesday it had evacuated more than 150 refugees from a Tripoli detention center affected by recent clashes, and said refugees elsewhere might also need to be moved.

Award-winning rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, jailed in the UAE for "publishing false information", has launched a hunger strike in protest against prison conditions, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced election day criticism Tuesday after activists from his right-wing Likud party brought cameras into polling stations in Arab-majority neighborhoods.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main challenger, Benny Gantz, stopped his car on polling day on Tuesday to help an injured motorcyclist on a highway, local media reported.

The United Nations on Tuesday postponed a Libyan national conference aimed at drawing up an election roadmap because of fighting raging near the capital, in another setback to peace efforts.

Multiple U.S. presidential candidates have criticized Israel's prime minister ahead of Tuesday's general election in Israel, with Beto O'Rourke branding Benjamin Netanyahu "racist" and Bernie Sanders calling him too extreme.