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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued what he called his "last warning" to Hamas, urging the Palestinian militant group to accept a deal to release hostages from Gaza.

Turkey's main opposition CHP called on citizens and residents of Istanbul to gather on Sunday, after police set up barricades in areas around its Istanbul headquarters in what the party leader called a "siege".

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held talks in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, using the occasion to issue sweeping condemnations of Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza. 

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday a new package of humanitarian and reconstruction projects in Syria, reinforcing its support for the transitional government that took power following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

Israel's Ramon Airport near the southern city of Eilat resumed operations after being briefly shut on Sunday when a drone launched from Yemen struck the arrivals hall, Israel's Airports Authority said.

France’s Emmanuel Macron and his Western allies have plunged headfirst into diplomatic delusion. By promising to recognize a “State of Palestine” at the UN General Assembly this month, Macron is not advancing peace—he is rewarding terrorism, undermining international law, and indulging in a fantasy that has no basis in reality.

Five people were killed and another severely wounded when a boat carrying migrants hit a Turkish coast guard vessel off northwest Turkey on Sunday, a local governor's office said, adding a search operation was underway for a missing person.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday that the war in Gaza could end if hostages were released and Palestinian militant group Hamas laid downs its weapons.

The new head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Brad Cooper, paid his first visit to Israel on Saturday since taking office in early August, the Israeli military announced.

Russia's largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

Emirati real-estate developers are looking to lure British investors to the United Arab Emirates where a weaker dirham, pegged to the U.S. dollar and battered by Donald Trump's tariffs, has made property significantly cheaper for buyers with pounds.

British police arrested around 425 people on Saturday at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action, in the latest round of detentions of its supporters since the pro-Palestinian group was banned by the government as a terrorist organisation.