Israel received pledges that Egypt's move to give Saudi Arabia strategic Red Sea islands would not affect the freedom of passage of its ships, media quoted Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon as saying Tuesday. 

The U.N.'s World Food Program raised alarm on Tuesday that escalating violence in Syria could derail a fragile truce that has helped facilitate increased aid deliveries. 

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff branded her vice president a traitor Tuesday and said he was a conspirator in a "coup" using impeachment proceedings to bring down a popularly elected government.

"If there were any doubts about my denunciation that a coup is underway, there can't be now. The coup plotters have a leader and a deputy leader," she said in a blistering attack in the capital Brasilia.

The Turkish border town of Kilis on Tuesday came under fire from rockets launched from an area of Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists, killing one person and prompting Turkey's army to retaliate.

Twelve members of a France-based jihadist network that sent fighters to Syria were given prison sentences on Tuesday, including a woman who had taken her three children to join her husband there.

The court in Paris heard that the group had become radicalized after attending a mosque in Villiers-sur-Marne in the Paris suburbs where they came into contact with their "guru," a radical imam called Mustapha Mraoui.

Presidential frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were on Tuesday declared the official winners of the Missouri primaries -- nearly a month after they were held.

The March 15 votes in both parties were extremely close: Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders were neck-and-neck, as were Trump and Senator Ted Cruz. 

The Islamic State group took control on Tuesday of most of a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus, seizing territory held by Syria's al-Qaida affiliate, a Palestinian official told AFP. 

A Syrian journalist who was shot in the head by Islamic State group jihadists in southern Turkey died in hospital on Tuesday, activists said.

Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday postponed a vote to approve embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation as furious backroom battles raged over the makeup of a new pro-EU government.

Oman's Sultan Qaboos returned on Tuesday from Germany after a successful medical checkup on his progress following lengthy treatment there in 2014 and 2015, a royal court statement said.