JERUSALEM: A state commission of inquiry into one of Israel’s worst civil disasters issued a warning to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a senior police official on Tuesday that they may share responsibility for an accident that killed 45 people.

The committee investigated the circumstances of the disaster in which a crowd of thousands of visitors at a religious festival in northern Israel last year created a deadly stampede and crush in a narrow passageway.

BEIRUT: Saudi Arabia is seeking the arrest and extradition from Lebanon of a Saudi man who threatened the Kingdom’s embassy in Beirut, the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon said on Tuesday.

“We call upon the competent Lebanese authorities to undertake the necessary legal procedures regarding the terrorist threats,” Waleed Bukhari said after a meeting with Lebanon’s interior minister.

AL-MUKALLA: The internationally recognized government of Yemen accused the Houthis on Monday of attempting to tighten their siege on the southern city of Taiz by launching a deadly attack on the only road connecting it with other cities, as it reiterated its calls for the UN Yemen envoy and the international community to exert serious pressure on the militia to stop the attacks.

BEIRUT: The Kingdom rejects attempts to use Islam as a shield for political purposes fueling hatred, extremism, and terrorism, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari said on Monday.

His remarks followed his meeting with Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian.

Derian was one of the most prominent figures of national unity in Lebanon and the Kingdom was keen on respecting all Islamic and Christian figures and positions as they were entrusted with the unity, Arabism, and coexistence of Lebanon, he added.

MOSUL: An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual reality headsets to turn back time, so visitors can explore heritage sites destroyed by terrorists and in battles to defeat them.

Daesh captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalizing or destroying a swath of cultural sites across the country.