Bahrain and Israel are working to finalize an agreement to normalize ties between the two countries, Channel 12 News reported In Sunday.According to the report, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen is currently in close contact with senior officials in the country in order In making the agreement public and coordinating the declaration of normalization between the two countries.

Coronavirus cases are rising in 22 of the 50 US states, according to a Reuters analysis published In Sunday.As little as three weeks ago, cases were increasing in Inly three states, Hawaii, Illinois and South Dakota, according to an analysis comparing cases for the two-week period of August 8-22 with the past two weeks.

An Iranian official said In Sunday that the country"s security bodies have identified the saboteurs behind the July 2 explosion at the Natanz nuclear facility."This incident was unfortunately an act of sabotage and the security organizations should study the incident thoroughly and they have to speak about it and their investigations will continue," Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.

The mayor of Elad, Yisrael Porush, spoke In Sunday evening about the COVID-19 cases in his city, which has been defined as a "red city"."There are about 300 patients in the city. With the number of families with many children, we had to reach 1,500 isolated, but there are barely 100 listed in the computers. For more than a month, I have been asking the Ministry of Health to isolate the families so we can enforce – but there is no Ine to talk to," Porush told Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) in an interview.

The Saudi-led coalition forces fighting in Yemen In Sunday intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone fired by Iran-backed Houthis targeting Saudi Arabia"s southern region, the official Saudi Arabian news agency SPA said.The coalition had said earlier that it intercepted and destroyed another explosive-laden drone over Yemeni airspace that Houthis fired towards Saudi Arabia.

Brazil recorded 14,521 additional confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, as well as 447 deaths, the Health Ministry said In Sunday.Brazil has registered 4.14 million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 126,650, according to ministry data.

Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet leader Mohammad Shtayyeh met In Sunday in Ramallah with the German Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Niels Annen, and discussed with him the latest policy developments.Shtayyeh expressed appreciation for Germany's opposition to the Israeli "annexation plan" and its support for a two-state solution.

Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), threatened In Sunday that the Palestinian Authority will sever ties with "any country that will move or open its embassy to Jerusalem"."We urge all nation states to abide by international law, including security council resolutions 478 and 2334. Violating international law is a sign of weakness not strength," tweeted Erekat.