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President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. could lift sanctions on Turkey and allow it to buy U.S. F-35 jets as he kicked off talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, but said he wanted Ankara to stop purchases of Russian oil.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged at the United Nations on Thursday to work with U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, France and the United Nations on a peace plan for Gaza overwhelmingly backed by the world body.

On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita held a series of high-level meetings with his international counterparts, focusing on two key issues: the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the question of the Moroccan Sahara.

Israeli forces struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, Houthi-run Al Masirah TV and residents said, a day after the group claimed a drone attack on a hotel in Israel’s Red Sea resort of Eilat.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Thursday branded the U.S. saying it wanted a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear programme as a "deception".

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has increasingly come to resemble a Spanish version of Emmanuel Macron: unpopular at home, politically weakened, and desperate to seize on causes that might rally public opinion. In Sánchez’s case, that cause has become the Palestinian questio

Moldova holds a parliamentary election on September 28 that could have sweeping consequences for its bid to join the European Union, as it fends off what its government calls Russian meddling in domestic affairs.

U.S. President Donald Trump will host Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Thursday, seeking to agree arms and trade deals that could help ease a series of diplomatic disputes that have dogged U.S.-Turkish ties for years. 

Turkey temporarily deployed a warning and control aircraft to Lithuania as part of NATO security measures, the defence ministry said on Thursday, following repeated airspace violations by Russian drones.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from Libya during the rule of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

U.S. President Donald Trump has presented leaders from several Muslim-majority countries with a 21-point plan peace plan for the Middle East and Gaza, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Wednesday, adding that he is confident of "some sort of breakthrough" in the coming days.

Israel's prime minister's office said on Wednesday that negotiations were being held with Syria and the conclusions were contingent upon ensuring Israel's interests, which include the demilitarization of southwestern Syria and safeguarding the well-being and security of the Druze in Syria.