PAKISTAN: Saudi Arabia has deposited $2 billion (£1.5bn) into Pakistan’s central bank, the government said today ahead of a critical meeting of the International Monetary Fund on the new bailout package for the cash-strapped South Asian country.

In a video statement, Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that the kingdom was making good on its promise to bolster Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves ahead of the IMF meeting.

ISRAEL: Authorities evicted a Palestinian family today from their apartment in Jerusalem’s Old City, the family said, capping a decades-long legal battle.

Activists say the Ghaith-Sub Laban family’s eviction is part of a wider trend of Israeli settlers, backed by the government, seizing Palestinian property in East Jerusalem.

MEXICO: Masked gunmen set fire to a public market in the central Mexican city of Toluca on Monday, killing nine people, authorities said.

Prosecutors said that the attackers arrived, opened fire, and then doused part of the market with a flammable substance before setting it on fire and fleeing. 

A statement said that prosecutors were investigating private security guards for abandoning their posts at the time of the attack.

YEMEN: The United Nations warned on Monday that the fight in Yemen over economic wealth “has become inseparable from the political and military conflict.”

Sporadic armed clashes between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and government forces continue, and the rivals are now also battling over revenue from ports, trade, banking and natural resources, the country’s UN envoy Hans Grunberg told the security council.

He said that there was a very real danger of a return “to large-scale fighting” in the country.