Israeli jets stage mock raids over south Lebanon, days after Israel said Hezbollah would attack the Jewish state if ordered to do so by Iran.

Rabih Karam, 31, boarded a Saudi Arabia flight to Lebanon last week but never came home, his father says.

A Lebanese man is killed in a hit-and-run incident.

Prominent Bahraini rights activist Rajab told a court on Wednesday that a charge that he tweeted insults against the government were "vindictive," as dozens of lawyers turned up to defend him.