The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), carrying about 500 people including the climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, said it had an encounter with Israeli navy vessels that circled the fleet's lead boat for around six minutes while remotely disabling its communication systems. In the early hours of this morning, Israeli occupation naval forces launched an intimidatory operation, it said in a statement.
On Monday, September 22, a moment of decision will take place on New York's East River at the United Nations General Assembly. France, Canada, and Belgium intend to recognize Palestine as a state, and the United Kingdom is also likely to take the step. The goal is to exert pressure on Israel to end the Gaza war and initiate a new peace process. Of the 193 UN members, almost 150 have already recognized Palestine as a state.
The small, resource-rich Gulf state has helped negotiate deals to release United States citizens held in Iran, Afghanistan and Venezuela, and return Ukrainian children to their families after they were taken to Russia. Qatar has also presided over diplomatic breakthroughs between Sudan and Chad, and Eritrea and Djibouti, as well as the 2011 Darfur peace deal. In 2020, Qatar helped negotiate the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan with the extremist Taliban group.
More than half a million people in Gaza City and parts of the south and central areas of the territory face "starvation, destitution and death," the body responsible for monitoring world hunger has found. DW has more. UN agencies have been warning of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory for monthsImage: Hatem Khaled/REUTERS Skip next section What you need to know Famine confirmed in Gaza for first time by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) monitor
I've solved six wars in six months. That was U.S. President Donald Trump's response to criticism of his role as mediator between Russia and Ukraine, just hours before receiving Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a delegation of European heads of state on Monday at the White House. It is also a claim that has become increasingly common in the Republican's messages from the Oval Office, in statements to the press, and in his posts on Truth Social, his social network.
President Joseph Boakai expressed gratitude to Donald Trump for the opportunity to discuss US investment in Liberia, emphasizing the longstanding friendship between Liberia and the US.
U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have raised fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East, prompting international calls for diplomacy and urgent de-escalation.
The diplomatic demarche, sent on Tuesday, stresses that countries acting against American foreign policy post-conference could face repercussions, highlighting US influence over global diplomacy.