The head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service, Ronen Bar, has announced his resignation and will step down on June 15, Israeli media reported late on Monday, six weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to oust the security chief.

Iran’s interior minister on Monday blamed “negligence” for a massive explosion that killed 70 people at the country’s largest commercial port, with firefighters still battling a blaze at the facility two days later.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday branded a three-day truce announced by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as an “attempt at manipulation”.