An Israeli air strike on Gaza City killed one person Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted a militant involved in a rocket attack on its Red Sea resort of Eilat.

The military said the target was a "global jihad terrorist" linked to the April 17 rocket attack on Eilat.

President Barack Obama Tuesday warned against a rush to judgment on Syria's use of chemical arms, but said proof of their use would trigger a "rethink" of his reluctance to use military force.

As critics complain that he let Syria cross a U.S. "red line," Obama said Washington believed chemical weapons had been used in the country's vicious civil war but did not know exactly who had fired them.

The United Nations and Human Rights Watch called on Iraq on Tuesday to rescind its suspension of the licenses of 10 satellite TV channels, a move that bars them from working in the country.

Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has also criticized the decision by the Communications and Media Commission, Iraq's media regulator, to suspended the channels for allegedly "encouraging violence and sectarianism."

The UAE president began a two-day state visit to Britain on Tuesday, during which he will be treated to ceremonial splendor but will also face questions over claims of torture from three British men jailed in Dubai.

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, head of state of the United Arab Emirates, is being hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, west of London.

The trial of 94 UAE Islamist dissidents accused of plotting to seize power in the Gulf state resumed on Tuesday, as rights groups urged Britain to pressure the visiting Emirati president on their behalf.

Only 86 defendants, including 13 women, were present at the top state security court in the United Arab Emirates, WAM state news agency reported. The rest are being tried in absentia.

Russia's air transport agency on Tuesday banned all Russian civilian planes from flying through Syrian air space after the crew of a Russian passenger jet reported coming under threat over the war-torn country.

The federal agency Rosaviation said the ban on flights over Syria went into force on Monday and will remain until further notice.

Eight Syrian refugees were charged on Tuesday with "unlawful assembly" after rioting last week at the Zaatari refugee camp injured 10 policemen, a judicial official said.

A court in the northeastern city of Mafraq "charged the eight Syrian men today with unlawful assembly for taking part in rioting in Zaatari last Friday," he told AFP.

An Israeli settler was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding Palestinian in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, in the first fatal anti-Israeli attack in the territory in 18 months, officials said.

The attack, which took place near Tapuah junction south of Nablus, prompted clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in a nearby village, security sources said.

Pope Francis called on Tuesday for Israel and the Palestinians to "resume negotiations" and "take courageous decisions", the Vatican said in a statement, after a meeting between the pontiff and Israeli President Shimon Peres.

"A speedy resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians is hoped for," it said.

Saboteurs on Tuesday blew up the main pipeline linking oilfields in Yemen's eastern Marib province to an export terminal on the Red Sea, almost halting the flow of oil, officials said.

The armed group attacked the pipeline in the Wadi Abida area of Marib, the local government officials told Agence France Presse.