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The fate of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is "largely a question that is going to be answered" by the leader of the Palestinian militant group, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen said on Wednesday.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for another year, but Israel's ally the United States said changes should be made to the operation's mandate in the future.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss a landmark economic and defence accord with German leaders on Wednesday, hoping to use a two-day visit to the European Union's top powers Germany and France to reset relations with the rest of the bloc.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is set to participate in an informal meeting with his European Union (EU) counterparts in Brussels on Thursday, marking the first such invitation extended to a Turkish foreign minister in five years. 

A Swiss citizen working on a U.S.-funded aid project has been arrested in Burkina Faso, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland and a foreign official said on Tuesday.

The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe.

U.S. Africa Command General Michael Langley and Chargé d'affaires Jeremy Berndt met Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar, the U.S Embassy in Libya said on social media platform X on Tuesday.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late on Monday expressing deep concern "over the deteriorating situation in Libya resulting from unilateral decisions."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest of messaging app Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France as an example of how other countries also imposed controls.

Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip in "a complex rescue operation", the military said on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was abducted by Hamas-led gunmen on Oct. 7.

Tunisia's administrative court on Tuesday upheld an appeal by prominent politician Abdellatif Mekki, allowing him to resume his candidacy in a presidential election expected on Oct. 6, judicial and political sources told Reuters.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has requested consular access to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, following his arrest in France on charges related to organized crime.