Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday began a two-day visit to Oman, which is mediating ongoing nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen denounced as "abhorrent" Israel's deadly wave of strikes on civilian facilities in Gaza including a school-turned-shelter, during a call with Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday.

"The expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza targeting civilian infrastructure, among them a school that served as a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is abhorrent," von der Leyen said, according to a European Commission readout of the call.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bring home all the hostages being held in Gaza, "the living and the dead", but made no mention of a proposed deal that Hamas has said is on the table.

"If we don't achieve it today, we will achieve it tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. We are not giving up," he said of the duty to free the captives in a speech Monday to close out Jerusalem Day. "We intend to bring them all back, the living and the dead."

North Korea has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield plan as a "very dangerous" threat that aims to weaponize space, state media reported Tuesday.

Pyongyang's foreign ministry has issued a memorandum "to inform the international community that the U.S. establishment of a new missile defense system is a very dangerous 'threatening initiative' aimed at threatening the strategic security of the nuclear weapons states," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Salman Rushdie said Monday he was "pleased" with the maximum 25-year jail sentence handed to a man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022.

"I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and hopefully he uses it to reflect upon his deeds," Rushdie told BBC radio in an interview.

Pep Guardiola said he cannot guarantee Manchester City will be back challenging for the Premier League title next season.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's party swept the board in parliamentary and regional elections that were boycotted by the opposition in protest over his disputed re-election last year.

A dual U.S.-German citizen was charged in a New York court Sunday on suspicion he tried to firebomb the United States' mission in Tel Aviv earlier this week, the U.S. Justice Department said.

French President Emmanuel Macron denied Monday any "domestic dispute" with his wife Brigitte after a video appeared to show her shoving his face away as they arrived in Vietnam for a diplomatic visit.

A Palestinian source familiar with negotiations aimed at securing a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza said Monday that a new proposal involved the release of 10 hostages, a 70-day ceasefire and a partial Israeli withdrawal.

The outline of the new potential deal comes as Israel ramps up its offensive in the Palestinian territory, and follows previous rounds of talks that have failed to reach a breakthrough ever since a two-month ceasefire fell apart in mid-March.