“Settler terrorism accelerates in the West Bank”
“Denying the Palestinian delegation access to UN headquarters constitutes a violation of the United States’ obligations as host country.”
“We have respected international law towards a two-state solution. The Palestinian people and their leaders must not be punished simply for demanding an end to the occupation and resorting to the institutions of international law,” said Mahmoud Abbas.
“Denying the Palestinian delegation access to UN headquarters constitutes a violation of the United States’ obligations as host country.”
“The Palestinian people are facing the most dangerous era in their history”
“The Palestinian people and their leaders must not be punished for simply calling for an end to the occupation,” says Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UN in recorded video
President Abbas begins by denouncing the absence of a visa issued by the United States.
Donald Trump welcomes Xi Jinping to the White House for a lavish state visit
The day after an exceptional welcome given to Xi Jinping, Donald Trump is once again taking care of the Chinese president during discussions which will focus in particular on artificial intelligence, after having consolidated the trade truce with Beijing.
The US president received his counterpart shortly after 10:00 a.m. (2:00 p.m. GMT) at the White House.
After going to shake his counterpart’s hand on Wednesday when he landed near Washington, the American president praised Thursday on his Truth Social network the appearance of the Chinese president, whom he said he found “strong”, “dynamic” and “in better shape than ever”, in a context of recent rumors about his state of health.
“Africa will not remain a passive zone of a new race for natural minerals”, says Ghana
“Africa will not remain a passive zone in a new race for natural minerals,” declared the Ghanaian president at the UN.
“The extraction of critical minerals in Africa should not be synonymous with a repeat of colonial exploitation,” added John Dramani Mahama. “We will process minerals at home, we will create local industries which will create jobs.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be the next speaker but not at the podium
As he has not obtained a visa from the United States, he will speak by videoconference.
“No one has any interest” in a loss of control of AI models, says the French ambassador
Despite the rivalries between Washington, Beijing and the Europeans, a minimal international consensus is emerging on artificial intelligence: no one wants to see uncontrollable models emerge, believes Adrien Abecassis, French ambassador in charge of digital and AI.
In an interview with AFP, he defends the idea of international governance to support the rapid development of this technology while limiting its security risks.
“Digital is becoming a power issue,” he says. And AIs are “technologies that transcend borders, by definition”.
‘No race is superior to another,’ Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama tells UN
At least eight dead in Ukraine in new Russian attacks
New Russian strikes against Ukraine left at least eight dead, including six in an agricultural enterprise, on Thursday, the day after Moscow declared that it did not intend the slightest “pause” in this deadly conflict.
Russia has bombed Ukraine almost daily since its invasion in 2022, the deadliest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. These strikes have further intensified since this summer, in particular against kyiv, the capital, to paralyze, according to the Ukrainian authorities, the economy and the lives of the inhabitants.
Israeli ambassador to the United States attacks France, his son still “in danger”
The Israeli ambassador to the United States announced that his son, injured the day before in an attack in the occupied West Bank, was still “in danger” of death.
Doctors “managed to stabilize his situation, but his life is still in danger,” Ambassador Yechiel Leiter said in a press statement at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem.
On Thursday, the ambassador also sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron, who drew the wrath of the Israeli government during his speech to the UN on Tuesday by declaring that “Hamas has never been active in the West Bank”.
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted six missiles fired by Houthis
The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said Thursday it had intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the pro-Iranian Houthis.
The Saudi civil defense issued alerts at midday for the cities of Mecca, Jeddah and Yanbu on the Red Sea, Tabouk (northeast) and Taif (south), in a context of escalation of Houthi attacks against the kingdom.
These alerts were lifted after a few minutes, the danger having been averted according to civil defense.
Iran will extend conflict “to the Indian Ocean” in the event of new US attacks: adviser to supreme leader
An adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has warned of an extension of the war “all the way to the Indian Ocean” in the event of another US attack on Iran.
“The conflict having now spread from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea (with the Houthis, editor’s note), it is possible that in response to a possible war, this front will extend even further, to the Indian Ocean, or even elsewhere,” declared this advisor, Yahya Rahim Safavi, in a video broadcast by the Fars news agency.
Benjamin Netanyahu to meet several heads of state on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly
The Israeli Prime Minister will meet with the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Panama and Ethiopia, the vice president of Colombia, as well as the prime ministers of Greece, Slovenia and Papua New Guinea.
Isolated and on the defensive, a combative Netanyahu expected at the UN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, isolated on the international scene and launched in a difficult campaign for his re-election, speaks at the UN podium on Thursday, where he will not fail to attack the institution and its opponents.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be at the center of this third day of debates at the UN General Assembly in New York, before which the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas will also speak. By videoconference due to lack of having obtained a visa from the United States, like last year.
Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to deliver a combative speech, as he has been accustomed to in recent years at the UN, attacking an institution he accuses of denigrating Israel and denouncing the sworn enemy Iran. He should also discuss the case of the Israeli soldier seriously injured in a car-ramming attack on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, son of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter.
Benjamin Netanyahu also promised to “tell the truth” about the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, whom he accuses of supporting Hamas.
