In a defiant U.N. speech, Israel’s prime minister dismisses a range of criticism.

Pope Leo XIV makes the first papal state visit to France in nearly 20 years. The pope will preside over Mass in the heart of Paris, meet with sex abuse survivors and deliver a speech on European unity in a city near the German border.

The proposal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart talks over an end to the broader war within seven days, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

Janez Janša accused the United Nations of double standards on Gaza and Ukraine, and revealed Trump promised to visit Melania Trump's homeland.

Heavy surf and rain ⁠lashed ⁠southwestern Mexico as "extremely powerful" ⁠Hurricane Polo crawls northwest offshore the mainland, the ​US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a bulletin on Thursday.

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He told that to world leaders in a defiant speech

The Justice Department asked the US Supreme Court to let the Trump administration continue its aggressive policy of deporting people to countries other than their own, seeking emergency action on a pillar of its immigration agenda.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the goal was to better integrate non-Italian speaking children, but critics accused of her trying to appease anti-immigrant sentiment.