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• Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to discuss global security and diplomacy. • He called for an immediate ceasefire and lasting peace in Ukraine and Sudan, emphasizing that solutions must be anchored in the United Nations Charter.

• World leaders gathered on Sept. 22 for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss wars, climate change, and artificial intelligence. • Secretary-General António Guterres called for stronger regulations to prevent the risks posed by "runaway artificial intelligence."

• External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar represented India at the 81st UN General Assembly, meeting with European, Ukrainian, Arab, and Asian counterparts. • He emphasized a diplomatic framework focused on the "4Fs," which refers to the global stability of fuel, food, fertilizer, and finance.

• World leaders and key participants in major global conflicts spoke at the United Nations General Assembly summit on September 24, 2026. • The summit agenda focused heavily on the role and regulation of artificial intelligence.

• Anti-Israel protesters hung an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 24 while he spoke at the United Nations. • Reports indicate that actress Susan Sarandon and comedian Hannah Einbinder were arrested during the demonstrations.

• Rumtin Sepasspour and Inés Parmentier argue that the next UN Secretary-General will inherit an institutional system unable to manage complex global shocks. • The current system suffers from a mandate gap where agency roles are limited or overlap, and a financial gap where donors fund specific projects rather than pooled resources.

• World leaders and AI executives met on the second day of the annual UN General Assembly summit to discuss global conflicts and artificial intelligence. • Two AI chiefs committed to slowing the development of their technology while calling for the creation of international standards.

• A Washington judge ordered the White House to immediately restore access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. • The ruling follows a legal challenge regarding the restriction of these specific news organizations.

• Donald Trump presented a vision of global order at the United Nations that prioritizes American strength over institutional consensus to maintain peace. • He positioned himself as a deal-maker capable of delivering results in conflict resolution where conventional diplomacy has failed.

• World leaders are convening for the third day of the 2026 United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is among the scheduled speakers for the day's events.

Superhero, who was joined by others dressed as comic book characters, retrieved stolen bag after scaling wallA scene from the fictional comic metropolis of Gotham City played out for real in Norwich last weekend when a man dressed as Batman chased a suspected thief and recovered a woman’s stolen handbag.Sonni Mason, 25, was attending a friend’s fancy dress party on Saturday night in a Batman costume when he witnessed a handbag being snatched after a row in a queue for a nightclub in the city. Continue reading...

The Green leader, who is Jewish, made the remarks as part of his campaign in the Holborn and St Pancras byelectionMorning, and welcome to our UK politics live blog.Zack Polanski declared himself an anti-Zionist and faced heckling at a Jewish community hustings in Holborn and St Pancras, where the Green party leader is standing as a candidate in next month’s byelection.A Green official said that many activists loyal to the party’s leadership might not be at the autumn conference because it takes place a week before voting in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, in which Polanski hopes to take Keir Starmer’s old seat from Labour, potentially leaving more scope for others to push through the motion.“The risk is that if it passes as it is we are alienating ourselves from the Jewish community in the UK, a lot of whom are not big fans of the current Israeli government,” a Green source said. Continue reading...