U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Wednesday he expected a breakthrough related to Gaza in the coming days, saying President Donald Trump had presented a plan to regional countries.

One year after a devastating war with Israel dealt massive blows to Hezbollah, the Iran-backed movement is still managing to pay its fighters and fund its social services.

The killing of its longtime leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on September 27 last year left the Shiite group reeling, yet it has maintained cohesion under his successor, Sheikh Naim Qassem.

A Paris court will rule this week whether former French president Nicolas Sarkozy accepted illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, after his key accuser died on Tuesday in Beirut.

The Kremlin on Wednesday said there was "no alternative" for Russia than to continue its offensive on Ukraine that it launched in 2022.

U.S. President Donald Trump blasted the United Nations and Europe on his return to the world body Tuesday, warning that migration is sending Western nations "to hell" and dismissing climate change as a "con job."

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday said the Islamic republic would not give in to pressure to abandon its enrichment of uranium.

U.S. President Donald Trump relentlessly mocked the United Nations on Tuesday in his first address since his White House comeback, blasting it for failing to bring peace and claiming the world body encourages illegal migration.

In his return to the U.N. General Assembly podium, Trump accused the U.N. of fostering an "assault" through migration on Western countries that he said were "going to hell."

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, visiting New York for the U.N. General Assembly, voiced hope Monday for a security deal that eases tensions with Israel but he played down the prospect of recognition.

French President Emmanuel Macron officially recognized a Palestinian state at the United Nations on Monday, spurring a wave of Western moves to defy Israel in making the landmark -- if symbolic -- move.

Russia denied on Tuesday that it was connected to the drone flights that forced Copenhagen airport to close its airspace for hours overnight, after Denmark's Prime Minister said she could not rule out Russian involvement.