By Gram Slattery, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump is willing to sign legislation to impose sanctions on Russia as long as he retains ultimate decision-making authority over any such measures, a senior White House official said on Monday.

Trump told reporters late on Sunday that it was "OK with me" that Republicans were working on legislation to impose sanctions on countries doing business with Russia over Moscow's failure to negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine.

(Reuters) -Hamas rejected the United Nations Security Council passing a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, saying it fails to meet Palestinians' rights and demands and seeks to impose an international trusteeship on the enclave that Palestinians and resistance factions oppose.

"Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation," the group added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed he would deal with the violent "handful of extremists" among Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, following clashes and another attack on Monday.

Homes and vehicles in a Palestinian village were torched on Monday evening, hours after members of the so-called Hilltop Youth movement clashed with security forces who were dismantling an illegal settler outpost.

Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023.

(Reuters) -At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, a rights group said on Monday, alleging torture and medical neglect and calling for an international investigation.

A report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel, entitled "Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody," said at least 46 died in Israel Prison Service facilities and 52, all from the Gaza Strip, died in military custody.

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Monday he plans to approve the sale of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, speaking a day before he hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a day of diplomacy.

"I will say that we will be doing that," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We'll be selling the F-35s."

A sale would mark a significant policy shift, potentially altering the military balance in the Middle East and testing Washington's definition of maintaining Israel's "qualitative military edge."

By Howard Goller and Ali Sawafta

(Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he will urgently convene cabinet ministers to ensure Israelis behind the latest attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are brought to justice.

In violence on Monday, Israelis torched homes and vehicles in Jab'a, a Palestinian village near Bethlehem after an earlier attack on property and civilians in the village of Sa’ir, the WAFA news agency said, quoting officials.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed he would deal with the violent "handful of extremists" among Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, following clashes and another attack on Monday.

Homes and vehicles in a Palestinian village were torched and vandalised on Monday evening, hours after members of the so-called Hilltop Youth movement clashed with security forces dismantling an illegal settler outpost.

Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023.

(Reuters) -Iraq confirmed final election results on Monday, showing Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s list came first with 46 seats in the 329-member parliament, the election commission said.

A new government could still be months away amid wrangling to build a majority.

(Reporting by Muayad Hameed Suadi; Editing by Toby Chopra)

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday it would take at least two months to reach initial findings and analyse the black box of a Turkish cargo plane that crashed in Georgia last week and left 20 soldiers dead.

The C-130 cargo aircraft had left Azerbaijan for Turkey and crashed in Georgia, marking the NATO member's highest military death toll since 2020. Ankara has said it was investigating the cause of the crash.

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out plans on Monday to toughen its asylum system, with measures such as making refugee status temporary and reinterpreting human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive illegally.

The moves are a bid to stem the rise of the populist Reform UK party, but the measures have been criticised by many charities, Labour lawmakers and supporters.

Here are details of the proposed measures:

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