Israel's ruling coalition remained intact Monday after a key minister backed off his threat to withdraw his party from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
The Education Minister Naftali Bennett had been pressuring Netanyahu to name him defense minister. But he said his Jewish Home party would drop all of its demands and give the prime minister a chance to get Israel "to win again."
The defense chief post became vacant last week with the resignation of Avigdor Lieberman, who was upset that Israel did not respond more forcefully during a flare-up of tensions with militants in the Gaza Strip.
With Bennett's party remaining, the coalition retains its slim majority with 61 of the 120 seats in parliament.
The next regularly scheduled elections are to take place in November, 2019.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan sharply criticized President Trump Monday for questioning Pakistan's anti-terror efforts. He said the U.S. is making Pakistan "a scapegoat" for U.S. "failures" in Afghanistan.
The chairman of the Nissan automobile company is to be dismissed after an internal investigation triggered by a whistle-blower.
Associated Press correspondent Ben Thomas reports.
Nissan says an internal investigation found Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn under-reported his income.
Japanese broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo News Service say Ghosn earned about $89 million over a five-year period but reported it as half that. Ghosn's alleged misconduct includes personal use of company assets.
Nissan confirms Ghosn was arrested after being questioned by Tokyo prosecutors.
The automaker issued an apology to shareholders and stakeholders, vowing to address governance and compliance issues.
One report says prosecutors have raided Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama.
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Both the Houthi rebel militia group and Saudi Arabia are expressing support for peace efforts in Yemen even as fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the militias appears to continue on the ground.
Correspondent Edward Yeranian reports for VOA from Cairo.
Arab media reported some scattered pockets of fighting around the key Red Sea port city of Hodeida Monday despite pledges from both the Houthi militia group and Saudi Arabia to accept U.N. calls for a cease-fire.
The coalition has been waging war against the rebel Houthis to restore Yemen's internationally recognized government to power.
Saudi coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al Maliki told journalists in Riyadh Monday that the coalition "supports all efforts by U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths to bring peace to Yemen, but that fighting was continuing in Hodeida and the Houthis attempted to launch a missile into Saudi territory overnight although it fell inside Yemen.
U.N. researchers said Monday that opium cultivation in Afghanistan has decreased by 20 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year. It said a severe drought and falling prices of dry opium at the national level were the causes.
Almost 1,000 people are on the list of those still missing in the western U.S. state of California after the deadliest wildfire in the state's history swept through areas of the northern part of the state. At least 77 people are now confirmed dead.
The fire is still burning. It is 65 percent contained and thousands of firefighters are working to get it to 100 percent.
Three Democratic senators have sued to block President Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. They filed the lawsuit on Monday in federal court in Washington.
Associated Press Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports from the White House.
Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono and Sheldon Whitehouse want a federal judge to remove Whitaker, arguing his appointment is unconstitutional because the Senate did not confirm him.
The Constitution does require the Senate confirm all principal officials before they can serve.
The Justice Department says Whitaker's appointment is legal since he's been at the department for more than a year at a "sufficiently senior pay level."
As Jeff Sessions's chief of staff, Blumenthal says the president's denying the Senate its constitutional obligation because he knows Whitaker would never pass Senate's scrutiny.
The suit is the fourth legal challenge of Trump's appointment of Whitaker following the ouster earlier this month of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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