A shooting occurred at an Israeli vehicle at the Ramin intersection near Beit Lid in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning.Three Israelis were wounded as a result and are receiving medical treatment at the scene.IDF personnel arrived at the scene.This is a developing story.

A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, a South Korean newspaper said on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to the South since 2016.Before fleeing to the South, Ri Il Kyu, 52, was a counselor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba, the Chosun Ilbo said citing an interview with Ri.Among Ri's jobs at the embassy was to block North Korea's rival South Korea and old ally Cuba from forging diplomatic ties, the newspaper reported. In February, the two countries established diplomatic relations.Details on North Koreans defections often take months to come to light, with defectors needing to be cleared by authorities and going through a course of education about South Korean society and systems.Ri entered North Korea's foreign ministry in 1999 and received a commendation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for successfully negotiating with Panama to lift the detention of a North Korean ship caught carrying arms from Cuba in 2013, Chosun said.

Republican Donald Trump leads Democratic US President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania but trails in Virginia, according to a New York Times/Sienna College poll of registered voters conducted in those states on July 9 to 11 and published on Monday.The polls, conducted before the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday, show Trump leads Biden 48% to 44% in Pennsylvania, while in Virginia, Biden leads Trump 46% to 44%.The poll of 872 registered voters in Pennsylvania had a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points, and the poll of 661 registered voters in Virginia had a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken convened senior leadership at the State Department on Monday morning to ask them to deliver a message around the world about America's commitment to democracy and rule of law after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters that Washington's message to the world is that there is no place for violence in the US democracy, adding that the State Department condemns the attack and all political violence.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met two key Israeli officials on Monday and discussed ongoing talks toward a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer confirmed in the meeting that Israel is still committed to reaching a ceasefire deal under the terms laid out by President Joe Biden on May 31.

A soldier was stabbed and wounded by a man armed with a knife at a railway station in Paris, the interior minister said on Monday, days before the French capital hosts the summer Olympic Games.Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on X that the assailant had been arrested and the soldier's wounds were not life threatening.France is on its highest state of alert. The soldier was deployed within Operation Sentinelle, a 3,000-strong unit which patrols sites such as railway stations, places of worship, schools and theatres.Earlier this year, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal placed an additional 3,000 troops on standby for Sentinelle.The attack took place at Paris' Gare de l'Est.