Netanyahu to meet Hillary and Trump
Reuters, Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently visiting the United States, will separately meet U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Sunday, campaign sources and Israeli officials said.
The meetings will take place a day before Clinton and Trump face off in a first presidential debate but no details of where or when the meetings will take place were immediately available.
UN urges US, China to ratify nuclear test ban treaty
Reuters, United Nations
The United Nations Security Council urged China, the United States, North Korea, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel and Pakistan to ratify a treaty banning nuclear explosions, which would allow the deal negotiated 20 years ago to come into force.
More than 160 countries have ratified the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Since then India, Pakistan and North Korea have conducted nuclear tests. This month Pyongyang conducted its fifth and largest test.
Suicide bomber kills seven in Baghdad
Reuters, Baghdad
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a commercial street of Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven and wounding 28, according to police sources.
The explosion happened in Iskan, a mostly Shi’ite district in the west of the Iraqi capital.
Islamic State has stepped up bomb attacks in government-held areas this year as it loses territory to U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias.
Italian navy ship docks in Iran
AP, Tehran
An Italian navy ship docked in the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Saturday in the first official visit by a Western naval vessel to the country in several years.
The Italian navy said the frigate Euro-named for a wind that blows across the Mediterranean from North Africa-was part of an EU anti-piracy mission and would remain docked in Iran for three days before returning to Italy.
