A delegation from the United Arab Emirates landed in Israel on Tuesday to sign agreements, including a mutual visa waiver, representing another step in the normalization of ties between the two countries, Haaretz reported. The delegation is also signing deals on cooperation in aviation, investment, science and technology, and is accompanied by the US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House adviser Avi Berkowitz.

The United States and Britain on Monday condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Reuters reported. British and US officials said the attacks were conducted by Unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, also known as the Main Centre for Special Technologies.

The final debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden will feature a mute button to allow each candidate to speak uninterrupted, Reuters reported. Organisers said on Monday, that it can avoid the disruptions that marred the first matchup.

After the fourth regular meeting of the EU-UK Joint Committee on the implementation and application of the Withdrawal Agreement, held on Monday in London, EC Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič underlined that moving beyond a business-as-usual approach is required, given the limited time left before the transition period ends.

This year (2020) is expected to be a historical low for international migration in the OECD area due to COVID-19 crisis, that has unprecedented consequences on migration flows. Following the onset of the pandemic, almost all OECD countries restricted admission to foreigners. As a result, issuances of new visas and permits in OECD countries plummeted by 46% in the first half of 2020, compared with the same period in 2019. This is the largest drop ever recorded. In the second quarter, the decline was 72%, the OECD International Migration Outlook 2020 says.

Iran announced on Sunday that a 10-year arms embargo by the UN Security Council had come to an end under the terms of a 2015 nuclear deal that it signed with world powers, dpa reported. "The United States is prepared to use its domestic authorities to sanction any individual or entity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, or transfer of conventional arms to or from Iran," the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement after the announcement.

Ersin Tatar, prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus, won a presidential election runoff on Sunday with 51.74% of votes, a statement of the electoral board read. His opponent - Mustafa Akinci - the 72-year-old incumbent president, received 48.26% after all votes were counted.

After a thumping election win, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Sunday that she would form a government within three weeks. However, it is unclear whether she would rule alone or form a coalition, as she did before.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Sunday of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after it was agreed.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will lead a US delegation traveling to Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on 17-20 October, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Friday.