Three people died and two were injured in a fire that broke out at an electrical equipment plant in the Russian city of Voronezh on Monday, the emergencies ministry said.The cause of the fire at the plant, located about 220 km (140 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was unclear.

Aharon Haliva, IDF Military Intelligence Directorate head, has retired from the IDF, Israeli media reported on Monday.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Islamabad on Monday on a three-day official visit, the foreign office said.The visit, which Pakistan's foreign office said would run until Wednesday."The Iranian president is accompanied by his spouse and a high-level delegation," Pakistan's foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that the group also included the foreign minister, other cabinet members and senior officials.Raisi will meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other officials. Raisi's arrival was declared a public holiday in Karachi.

Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's nuclear doctrine, the country's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, days after a Revolutionary Guards commander warned Tehran might change its nuclear policy if pressured by Israeli threats.

US forces stationed at Iraq's Ain al-Asad airbase were targeted in an armed drone attack that caused no damage or casualties, a US official said, in the second attack on US troops in the region in less than 24 hours.The attacks follow a near-three month pause in the targeting of US forces in Iraq and Syria after months of near-daily rocket and drone strikes by Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim armed factions over US backing of Israel's Gaza campaign.