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• Member states are expected to show strong support for maintaining the UNIFIL international peacekeeping presence in south Lebanon during the upcoming UN General Assembly. • UNIFIL currently monitors activities by Israel and Hezbollah while supporting humanitarian efforts and tracking civilian suffering.

• Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met with UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda on Thursday. • The discussions with the UK Foreign Secretary focused on global food and energy challenges caused by ongoing conflicts.

• Conflict in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait has disrupted a strategic global trade chokepoint. • The instability has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a route that previously handled roughly 20 percent of the global oil trade.

• The United Nations is facing a crisis of relevance eight decades after its creation to prevent global catastrophes and resolve disputes. • The organization is struggling as wars entrench and geopolitical rivalries intensify alongside risks from artificial intelligence and climate change.

• The United Nations recently demonstrated its continued utility despite appearing sidelined over the past year. • The organization has played a minimal role in the Gaza conflict and had no voice in the Iran conflict.

• The Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, has evolved from a local northern Yemeni militia into a regional power capable of projecting force beyond its borders. • Shipping diversions away from Houthi-controlled ports have restricted the inflow of essential food, medicine, and international aid.

• 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.

Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissionsA small uncrewed vessel has embarked on a lap around Antarctica and may not return for months.The seven-metre craft, which looks like a large kayak in hi-vis orange, is expected to travel about 22,000km through inhospitable waters, propelled by powerful westerly winds and energy from the sun. The journey is seven times the distance between Sydney and Perth. Continue reading...

As the UN warns traditional safeguards are ‘unravelling’, Donald Trump says he will encourage, not restrain, the AI raceWhen the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sat down for an interview in the heart of Silicon Valley at the weekend he had known for two days that his was the first government known to have been attacked by a rogue AI agent.He didn’t reveal the attack then, but he sounded a warning about the march of AI: “the risk is that AI develops in a way in which humans are no longer in control of what AI is producing.” Continue reading...