France and Belgium remains under highest threat level warning

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• The French president warns that the threat level remains high across France and Belgium despite the arrest of the main suspect behind last year’s Paris terror attacks in Brussels. Francois Hollande says his country will seek extradition of the suspects, including Salah Abdeslam who was wounded during the police raid.
• President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, says irregular refugees will be returned to Turkey from Sunday. The deportation comes as part of a deal signed between Turkey and the EU, which Ankara has hailed as historic. The agreement is aimed at tackling the refugee crisis.
• The head of the Syrian government delegation negotiating peace in Geneva has called for the approval of a proposal by Damascus to resolve the country’s crisis. Meanwhile, the UN special envoy for Syria has urged the Syrian government side to make clear proposals on political transition in the country.
• Russia's defense ministry says the country's air force is conducting 20 to 25 sorties each day against terrorist groups in Syria. The ministry also said that conditions are ripe for a complete defeat of Daesh terrorists in the ancient city of Palmyra.
• Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank. Israel claims the victim was killed after he attacked a group of soldiers with a knife in the city of Bethlehem. Elsewhere, four Palestinian protesters were wounded in the Gaza Strip after they were attacked by Israeli soldiers.
• Crowds of people have marched towards the district known as the Green Zone in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, protesting against alleged corruption among government officials. Protesters say they will erect camps and will not evacuate the area unless quote-corrupt officials are sacked. The rally was called by top Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
• Thousands of Yemeni people have poured onto the streets of the capital Sana’a to denounce Saudi Arabia’s continued airstrikes against the country. Protesters have also demanded the international community act quickly to stop Riyadh’s invasion of Yemen which began nearly a year ago.
• Yemen's Ansarullah fighters and allied army units have targeted the positions of Saudi-hired mercenaries in Jawf province in retaliation for relentless Saudi airstrikes against the country. Yemeni media say the rocket attack has left a number of casualties in the city of Hazm.

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