UAE, Israel establish diplomatic ties; annexation of parts of West Bank now halted

US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to break the news

Lebanon Parliament meets after blast, government resignation

Parliament is not convening at its usual location due to ongoing protests outside the Parliament building

Despite a truce last year backed by UN, Egypt and Qatar, the two sides clash sporadically with rockets, mortar fire or incendiary balloons

Apart from several MPs, Lebanon's information minister and environment minister both announced their resignations on Sunday

The head of Lebanon's Maronite church meanwhile called on the entire government to step down over the August 4 explosion

The move also looks to bring the United States a little closer to bringing its troops home and ending its longest military engagement

Protesters set up symbolic nooses at Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for explosion

Iran's UN ambassador say a Mahan Airlines Airbus A310 en route to Beirut on July 23 was intercepted by two US F-15 fighter jets

"There are two possible scenarios for what happened: it was either negligence or foreign interference through a missile or bomb," he said

The decision will be the last step towards starting negotiations between Kabul’s political leadership and Taliban under a peace deal with US