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.

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.

Three teenagers were moderately injured in a car accident at the Shmariyahu East interchange on Monday.The three teenagers, an 18-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy, and a 12-year-old girl, were injured when a vehicle overturned on Road 531 at the Shmariyahu East interchange.Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics provided them with medical treatment and transferred them to Meir Medical Center.

New European Union sanctions against Iran in response to the country's recent attack on Israel should include the Revolutionary Guards, Belgium's Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said on Monday.Speaking to journalists ahead of an EU ministers' meeting in Luxembourg, Lahbib said that so far, there was no consensus on what legal basis the Guards could be added to the bloc-wide list of entities seen as terrorist organizations."We will discuss it together", she said, adding:"I also think we have to expand sanctions against violent settlers (in the West Bank). We have to be balanced and make sure we won't be accused of having double standards."

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.