Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military advisor to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claimed the Western spies used nuclear-spying reptiles to get better insight into the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Firuzabadi also said Western spy agencies had "failed every time," suggesting that the energy-sensitive lizards did not succeed in their mission.

North Korea's state-sponsored news agency issued a rare press release on Monday, in which the regime's leader, Kim Jong-un, was said to have "expressed satisfaction" after the country's delegation arrived back from a trip to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the propaganda outlet for the regime, claimed that Kim Jong-un said South Korea's "specially prioritized" efforts to accommodate North Korea's delegates were "very impressive," according to a translation from KCNA Watch.

The Russian military has successfully tested a new upgraded air defence missile at a firing range in Kazakhstan, a local newspaper reported Monday. A new modernized air defence missile has successfully fulfilled the task and reached the target with specified accuracy in Sary Shagan of the Kazakhstan firing range, Andrei Prikhodko, deputy commander of Aerospace Forces’ air and missile defence taskforce, told Russia’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

Israeli police say that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be charged over alleged bribery and breach of trust charges in a pair of corruption cases, dealing an embarrassing blow to the embattled PM. A police statement said there was enough evidence to indict Mr Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases.

Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Aguila Issa, has accused Turkey of supporting terrorism in that country.

In January, two bomb-laden cars exploded near a mosque in Benghazi following prayer time.

Forty people were killed. Two people were killed in a similar incident last week.

“Terrorist organisations are behind this [explosions in Benghazi], unfortunately with support of foreign countries, with Turkey’s support,” he said.

A passenger plane with 71 people on board crashed shortly after leaving Moscow, with no hope of survival of the crew and passengers, a source in emergency services told the Interfax news agency on Sunday, according to reports. The Antonov-148 of Saratov Airlines with 65 passengers and a crew of six was en route from Domodedovo Airport in Moscow to Orsk of the Orenburg Region in western Russia.