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World leaders gathered in New York this week for high-level talks at the UN General Assembly, with Gaza, regional tensions and plans to reform the UN among the key issues on the agenda. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address drew a mass walkout, with nearly 70 country delegations leaving the chamber or leaving their seats vacant in protest over Israel’s war in Gaza and its wider regional actions.
All that plus more stories from the week: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy gives Russia an ultimatum: either agree to an energy ceasefire or prepare for a ‘painful’ winter, Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia call an urgent Mecca Defense Pact meeting, the tit-for-tat between the US and Greenland ends with a deal, South Sudan’s president dissolves the government ahead of the country’s first election since independence, and a US court orders a 14-day halt to the enforcement of Trump’s media ban.
