The IAEA board of governors on Wednesday voted to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear "non-compliance" in a diplomatic move to pile pressure on the Islamic republic.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not had access to key nuclear facilities in Iran since Israel, joined by the United States, launched a 12-day conflict in June 2025 that included strikes on nuclear sites.

Nuclear facilities have also been hit in the latest war, which erupted on February 28, and the IAEA has repeatedly urged to be given access.

By Alexander Cornwell, Elizabeth Piper and John Irish

LONDON/TEL AVIV/PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Israel said on Tuesday it was closing Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem in response to plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Britain will also no longer participate in a U.S.-led coordination mission for Gaza and some British officials, including former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and other nationals will be banned from entering Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said.

By Alexander Cornwell and Rami Amichay

TEL AVIV/PSAGOT, West Bank, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israel has given Britain 30 days to close its East Jerusalem consulate in response to sanctions on goods from settlements, a measure Britain's leader said on Wednesday was needed to "stand against injustice" in the occupied West Bank.

Britain has said it will have nothing more from Israeli settlement businesses like Psagot winery in the occupied West Bank. But on Wednesday, as the clink of bottles mingled with chatter from customers, some armed with automatic weapons, the owners were defiant.

Britain a day before led allies in a ban on exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal under international law, accusing settlers of "ethnic cleansing" through their rising attacks on Palestinians.

LJUBLJANA, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israel will open its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday in a turnaround in relations between the countries after populistJanez Jansa formed a centre-right government this year.

The rapprochement comes as Israel faces growing diplomatic isolation elsewhere over its West Bank policies, includingimport bans by Britain, France and Canada on products from Israeli settlements.

TEL AVIV, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Wednesday that the government does not plan to deport Palestinians from Gaza, after two Israeli ministers this month floated proposals for the mass removal of Palestinians from the coastal territory.

• "We are not planning to expel or to deport anyone from (the) Gaza Strip," Saar told a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Sept 9 (Reuters) - Western powers have submitted a proposed resolution to the U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors that would report Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years for breaching its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Diplomats at the International Atomic Energy Agency say the text proposed by the United States, Britain, France and Germany is almost certain to pass, with a vote expected later on Wednesday or on Thursday.

Below are some key facts about the treaty.

PURPOSE OF THE NPT

VIENNA, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Wednesday drawing a line under Syria's secret nuclear activities during the Assad family's rule, saying the new authorities had helped resolve all outstanding questions.

After Israel bombed a site in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor in 2007 that it said was a secret nuclear reactor near completion, the International Atomic Energy Agency demanded Syria come clean on its nuclear activities, which it did not do.

The UN nuclear watchdog's board of governors on Wednesday decided to close a long-time probe against Syria launched under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad after the country's new authorities led agency experts to key nuclear sites.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month visited two sites, one in Deir Ezzor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities.

Salama Saeed and her son fled for their lives when shelling and gunfire from Yemen's Houthi rebels engulfed their village, forcing her to leave other children behind.

They are among thousands of people driven from their homes since the Iran-backed rebels launched a broad offensive in areas near the Red Sea last week, their biggest in years.

Choking back tears as she shelters in a rudimentary hut of wood and straw, the mother describes her anguish for her four adult children who were unable to escape, trapped by the fighting.