UZBEKISTAN has formally evicted the US from a military base that has served as a hub for its combat operations in Afghanistan, the US State Department confirmed.

At least one person was killed and 60 injured in a series of bomb blasts in Saudi capital Riyadh, including a car packed with explosives that rammed into a residential compound housing westerners, hospital and security officials said today.

THE man who carried out yesterday's suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv beachfront pub was a British citizen, as was an additional terrorist who managed to flee when his explosive device did not detonate, Israeli media reported last night.

International mediators presented a long-awaited Mideast peace plan today, just hours after Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in and after a suicide bomber linked to his political party killed himself and three others at a Tel Aviv bar.