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Tánaiste Simon Harris has said he "can't see any scenario" in which Ireland could take part in US president Donald Trump's Board of Peace.

(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Wednesday that he will join President Donald Trump's newly created Gaza Board of Peace. In a statement on Wednesday, the Israeli leader said he would take part in the body, which was formally established by the president as part of a sweeping 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas and oversee Gaza's reconstruction.

The European Union's executive arm, Russia, Belarus and Thailand on Monday were the latest to be asked to join U.S. President Donald Trump's new Board of Peace that will supervise the next phase of the Gaza peace plan, as a top Israeli official said the initiative is "bad for Israel" and should be scrapped.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, says he hopes for a leaders' summit in the US by the end of January to discuss proposals on how to end the war with Russia. Security advisers from Ukraine's top allies met in Kyiv on Saturday for talks on a US-brokered plan to end the war, days after Kyiv announced a deal was 90% ready.

A peace deal is "90 percent ready...but the remaining 10 percent contains, in fact, everything...that will determine the fate of peace, the fate of Ukraine and Europe, and how people will live," he said in the televised address. "What does Ukraine want? Peace? Yes." "But at any cost? No. We want the end of the war. Not the end of Ukraine," he added.

The central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk came under attack by dozens of Russian drones and missiles overnight, causing power and water outages, Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi and the Ukrainian air force said on Sunday. The city, located on the Dnipro River 259 km (161 miles) from the capital, Kyiv, is a major industrial hub and the site of one of Ukraine's biggest oil refineries.

There is no undeclared nuclear enrichment in Iran. All of our facilities are under the safeguards and monitoring

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), carrying about 500 people including the climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, said it had an encounter with Israeli navy vessels that circled the fleet's lead boat for around six minutes while remotely disabling its communication systems. In the early hours of this morning, Israeli occupation naval forces launched an intimidatory operation, it said in a statement.

Today to revive the hope of peace and a two-state solution, I state clearly as prime minister of this great country that the UK formally recognizes the State of Palestine,

On Monday, September 22, a moment of decision will take place on New York's East River at the United Nations General Assembly. France, Canada, and Belgium intend to recognize Palestine as a state, and the United Kingdom is also likely to take the step. The goal is to exert pressure on Israel to end the Gaza war and initiate a new peace process. Of the 193 UN members, almost 150 have already recognized Palestine as a state.

The small, resource-rich Gulf state has helped negotiate deals to release United States citizens held in Iran, Afghanistan and Venezuela, and return Ukrainian children to their families after they were taken to Russia. Qatar has also presided over diplomatic breakthroughs between Sudan and Chad, and Eritrea and Djibouti, as well as the 2011 Darfur peace deal. In 2020, Qatar helped negotiate the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan with the extremist Taliban group.

More than half a million people in Gaza City and parts of the south and central areas of the territory face "starvation, destitution and death," the body responsible for monitoring world hunger has found. DW has more. UN agencies have been warning of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory for monthsImage: Hatem Khaled/REUTERS Skip next section What you need to know Famine confirmed in Gaza for first time by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) monitor

I've solved six wars in six months. That was U.S. President Donald Trump's response to criticism of his role as mediator between Russia and Ukraine, just hours before receiving Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a delegation of European heads of state on Monday at the White House. It is also a claim that has become increasingly common in the Republican's messages from the Oval Office, in statements to the press, and in his posts on Truth Social, his social network.

Putin stated that an agreement was reached to "pave the path to peace in Ukraine" but didn't provide further details on the specifics of the agreement.

President Joseph Boakai expressed gratitude to Donald Trump for the opportunity to discuss US investment in Liberia, emphasizing the longstanding friendship between Liberia and the US.

This agreement marks a very important step towards establishing peace in the African Great Lakes region, but nobody knows yet whether it will hold.

U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have raised fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East, prompting international calls for diplomacy and urgent de-escalation.

The diplomatic demarche, sent on Tuesday, stresses that countries acting against American foreign policy post-conference could face repercussions, highlighting US influence over global diplomacy.

It's always important not to talk for too long, but to keep it short and also let him talk. Every second or third word was 'great.'

Only a political solution will make it possible to restore peace and build for the long term.

I will work with you, both to see if, after a thousand years, a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday.