US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to "house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.""REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" he posted on the Truth Social platform. "When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm."The federal prison at Alcatraz housed notorious US criminals such as Al Capone before it closed in 1963. It is now one of San Francisco's most popular tourist destinations."Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ," Trump wrote.

Israel Police arrested 18 illegal residents from West Bank cities Nablus and Tulkarm at a construction site in Haifa on Monday.

The IDF prevented an attempt to smuggle weapons from Jordan into Israel, the military announced Monday.During a Sunday operation, troops and police officers located four pistols in the northern area of ​​the Jordan Valley that were being smuggled.The confiscated weapons were transferred to the Israel Police for further processing, the military said.

Hard-right eurosceptic George Simion won the first round of Romania's presidential election re-run on Sunday, near final results showed, after a ballot seen as a test of the rise of Donald Trump-style nationalism in the European Union.Ballots from nearly 99.6% of voting stations showed Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, 55, was in second place at around 21%, behind Simion's 40.6%. They will meet in a runoff on May 18.A Simion victory could isolate the country, erode private investment and destabilize NATO's eastern flank, where Ukraine is fighting a three-year-old Russian invasion, political observers say.

The government must arrive at a decision over how to probe the failures on its end of the October 7 massacre, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara wrote in a letter on Monday morning."The government's refusal to establish a concrete decision on a state commission of inquiry is damaging, and places us farther and farther from the truth," she wrote.

Air France and Germany's Lufthansa were among global carriers avoiding Pakistani airspace, airlines and flight trackers showed on Monday, as tension between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan stays high after a deadly attack in Kashmir last month.India took measures such as closing its airspace to Pakistan airlines, while Pakistan barred those owned or operated by its neighbor, suspended trade and halted special visas for Indians, although it let international airlines use its airspace.Lufthansa Group's airlines are "avoiding Pakistani airspace until further notice" it said in a statement to Reuters, although that will result in longer flight times on some routes to Asia, and added that it is monitoring developments.Flight tracking data showed some flights of British Airways, Swiss International Air Lines and Emirates turning north towards Delhi in order to avoid Pakistani airspace, after traveling over the Arabian Sea.