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.