The BBC and The Times report that Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, has become Saudi Arabia’s first woman ever to take on an envoy role for the kingdom. The BBC reports that her appointment as ambassador to the United States was made public in a royal decree on Saturday. Princess Reema spent part of her childhood living in Washington DC. She assumes the role at a difficult time, as Saudi Arabia tries to quell an international outcry over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death. Princess Reema will take over the role from the Crown Prince’s younger brother, Prince Khalid bin Salman, who has been appointed as the country’s Deputy Defence Minister. She follows in the footsteps of her father, Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, who held the US Ambassador post from 1983 until 2005. The Times reports Princess Reema’s comments on Twitter. She said of the appointment: “I will work with God’s permission to serve my country, its leaders and all its children and I will spare no effort to that end.”

The Guardian reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged £200m to help victims of Yemen’s civil war. The Prime Minister announced the aid package as she arrived for EU talks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. “We are playing our part and will continue to do so but there is still more that we as an international community can do,” she said. “At the summit in Egypt, I will call on our partners in Europe and the region to continue to provide the aid that is so desperately needed.” She added: “There must be a political settlement. That is the only way to end this crisis and the suffering it has caused. Real progress has been made to reach a political solution, but the window of opportunity is closing. We must use the momentum of the landmark Stockholm talks to turn the current agreements into a lasting peace.”

The Guardian has published an editorial on Egypt and Europe that says: “The summit of the EU and the Arab League in Sharm el-Sheikh highlights the ongoing and ill-advised support for President Sisi”. It writes that “EU leaders see Mr Sisi’s regime as a rare source of stability in the region, even if his actions are feeding long-term pressures”. But concludes that: “Corruption, inflation and unemployment as well as state brutality are fuelling frustrations. A more accurate assessment of Mr Sisi’s rule might be stability – for now. Bolstering his reign is foolish and wrong.”

Kenan Malik argues in The Observer that antisemites use the language of anti-Zionism but argues the two are distinct. He concludes: “The elision of anti-Zionism and antisemitism is a feature… of both sides of the debate. On the one side, it helps to legitimise antisemitism, on the other to close down debates about Israel and to criminalise genuine struggles for Palestinian rights. We should reject both.”

The Times reports that Bangladeshi commandos stormed an airliner yesterday and fatally shot an armed man who allegedly tried to hijack a flight bound for Dubai. The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG147 left Dhaka at 4.35pm local time. Its pilot made an emergency landing less than an hour later after being told that a passenger was behaving suspiciously. Soldiers boarded the aircraft after passengers and most of the crew evacuated. The assault took about eight minutes, according to local media. The suspect was found with a pistol and died shortly after being arrested.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph Shamima Begum said the UK government is “making an example of me”. Speaking to The Telegraph in the al-Hol camp in Syria, the 19-year-old from east London said she might have been able to keep her UK passport if her case had not attracted so much attention. “They are making an example of me,” she said. “I regret speaking to the media. I wish I had stayed low and found a different way to contact my family. That’s why I spoke.”

Simon Tisdall wrote for The Observer yesterday that Trump’s cronies are in secret talks to sell nuclear tech to Saudi. He writes that “the idea that the US might sell state-of-the-art nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, potentially enabling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reckless regime to build nuclear weapons, sounds so far-fetched as to be almost grotesque.” He argues: “after all the near-hysterical American and Israeli warnings about the risk of Iran, the Saudis’ arch-rival, acquiring the bomb, surely even Donald Trump would balk at such breathtaking – and dangerous – hypocrisy?”

The FT reports that Algeria has been rocked by street protests against the President. Algerian police fired tear gas to disperse protestors on a third straight day of demonstrations against the ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his bid to seek a fifth term in office. Despite his ill health Bouteflika, 81, announced earlier this month he would be a candidate in presidential elections in April.

Richard Hall writes in the Independent about western volunteers who travelled to Syria to fight ISIS. He writes: “While scores were travelling to Syria for jihad, a smaller but no less committed group of internationalists was heading to the other side of the battle.” According to Hall: “Many say they are not ready to return home, and instead will stay on in Syria. But as the civil war transitions to a new phase, their role is uncertain.” He quotes a Canadian volunteer who said: “there is a lot of work besides fighting Daesh… I came here because I wanted to participate in this revolution as best I can”.

The Mail on Sunday ran an interview with the father of Shamima Begum. Speaking from his home in the Sunamganj region of north-east Bangladesh, he told the paper that he backs Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision to strip his daughter of her British citizenship. Speaking to the media for the first time, Ahmed Ali, 60, said: “I know they [the British Government] don’t want to take her back, and in this I don’t have a problem. I know she is stuck there [in Syria] but that’s because she has done actions that made her get stuck like this.”

The Independent reports that Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland would not accept “racist insults and lies” after pulling out of a two-day summit in Jerusalem over accusations that Poles collaborated with the Nazis. Mateusz Morawiecki was due to join the leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – known as the Visegrad group – at a two-day event hosted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. But the Polish leader pulled out of a summit over Israel’s acting Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s comments which he denounced as “racist insults” and “unbelievable”.

ITV News broadcast an interview with the Briton known as Jihadi Jack who exclusively told ITV News he wants to come home after being held for two years in a Kurdish prison – but doubts the UK will move to bring him back. Oxford-born Jack Letts, who was nicknamed Jihadi Jack by media after running away to Syria in 2014, said he was missing his mum and the home comforts of British life, including pasties and episodes of Doctor Who. The British-Canadian spoke to ITV News Security Editor Rohit Kachroo from his prison in Syria, where he has been held after being charged by the YPG with being a member of ISIS. “If the UK accepted me then I’d go back to the UK, it’s my home. But I don’t think that’s going to happen,” he said in the wide-ranging interview.

The Independent reports that Saudi Arabia supports China’s right to carry out so-called anti-extremism drives that have seen hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims detained in re-education camps, its Crown Prince has suggested. “We respect and support China’s rights to take counter-terrorism and de-extremism measures to safeguard national security,” Mr Bin Salman was reported as saying by the state-run Xinhua News Agency on Friday.

Reuters reports that at home and abroad, Israeli PM Netanyahu faces a backlash for a far-right alliance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touched off rare criticism from The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) , the largest US pro-Israel lobby, over an election alliance with a far-right party loyal to the policies of the late anti-Arab rabbi, Meir Kahane. Criticism levelled by AIPAC and another major US Jewish group, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), against Jewish Power dominated coverage in Israel on Sunday of the closely-contested race. “AIPAC has a longstanding policy not to meet with members of this racist and reprehensible party,” the group said, echoing comments tweeted by the AJC.

Reuters reports that Libya’s El Sharara oilfield remains closed as armed men are still there, the chairman of state oil firm NOC said on Monday. “The field is closed because of the presence of a group of civilians, this armed militia, and some military people with them,” the NOC chairman said in the video posted online.

Reuters reports that Yemen’s Houthis are to quit two ports on Monday under a peace deal. Iranian-aligned Houthi forces have agreed to draw back from two Yemeni ports on Monday while withdrawal from the main Hodeidah port will occur later alongside a retreat by coalition-backed forces massed outside the city, UN and Yemeni sources said.

Reuters reports on the Arab League and EU summit in Sharm el Sheikh. Arab and European states sought common ground on security threats and regional crises including Yemen, Syria and Libya on Sunday at their first joint summit held in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Yediot Ahronoth, Haaretz and Maariv all report the State Comptroller’s Office decision that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot fund his legal defence with money from wealthy donors. The Committee denied the Prime Minister’s request to receive $2m in legal aid from his cousin Nathan Milikowsky and from his friend and businessman Spencer Partridge to fund his legal bill and ruled that Netanyahu must return $300,000 that he has already received from Milikowski as well as gifts received from Partridge. Netanyahu’s lawyers argued that: “The Prime Minister acted in total innocence and in accordance with the proper and professional legal counsel that he was given on this matter.”

Kan Radio reports that last night Netanyahu accused the Left of attempting to keep him from having even the basic right of financing his legal defence while confronting an army of detectives and prosecutors working against him at a cost of NIS 250 million to the taxpayers. Netanyahu is expected to appeal to the High Court of Justice and will request a temporary injunction against the decision by the State Comptroller’s Office. The Likud issued a statement calling the decision scandalous and one-sided.

Writing in Haaretz, Gidi Weitz argues that the State Comptroller’s decision is, for Netanyahu “tantamount to a strategic attack” while Ben Caspit in Maariv suggests a Pandora’s box been opened which: “Could spell a major strategic disaster for Netanyahu. Imagine that Netanyahu were required to pay back not only the value of the two suits that he received from Spencer Partridge, but the value of all the other gifts that he received throughout the years, and not only from Arnon Milchan. Could the Netanyahus survive that kind of event?”

In Haaretz, Amos Harel argues that: “Beneath the surface there’s a ticking bomb that could upend the entire election campaign, even though it has nothing to do with the investigations of the prime minister or the union of the centrist parties.” He describes a: “Series of negative developments on issues relating to the Palestinians – Jerusalem, prisoners, Palestinian Authority funds and the condition of Gaza’s infrastructure – once again are threatening an escalation between Israel and the Palestinians, possibly during the six weeks left until the Knesset election.”

Kan Radio reports that the film Skin directed by Israeli Guy Nattiv won the Oscar for best live action short film. Nattiv, who was greatly moved, ascended the podium to receive the award and said “good evening, Israel” in Hebrew. The film deals with racism in the United States and focuses on a young man who seeks to disconnect from the neo-Nazi organization in which he had been a member.

Walla reports on claims by Naftali Bennett who said that: “Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump have decided on a plan to establish a Palestinian state right after the election.” He said they were: “Coordinating not to present the plan before the election so as not to make things difficult for Netanyahu, but a day or two after the election they plan to establish a Palestinian state on 90% of the territory and to partition Jerusalem will be presented. Lapid and Gantz will join the cabinet as a national peace government.” The Likud categorically rejected Bennett’s remarks reiterating that: “Netanyahu will form and lead a right-wing government after the election.”

Walla reports on the row between Netanyahu and the American Jewish community and AIPAC’s condemnation of the Jewish Home’s deal with Jewish Power. Yuval Steinitz said: “Over the weekend, we witnessed an attempt to turn the statement by AIPAC into a tempest in a teapot. Let me reassure you: Netanyahu was and still is the most respected and influential Israeli leader in the United States, and in two weeks we shall see how he is welcomed at the White House and AIPAC.” Miri Regev also spoke about AIPAC’s condemnation, saying that the pro-Israel lobby had: “No right to interfere in what occurs in Israeli politics.”