Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, marking their first known one-on-one meeting since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Germany urged Russia to abandon its path of escalation.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar strongly criticized Pakistan at the UN General Assembly after PM Shehbaz Sharif raised Kashmir, saying arguments by the 'serial practitioner of terrorism' will not stand and warning of consequences.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his UN General Assembly speech to accuse New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of antisemitism and endangering Jewish New Yorkers, calling Hamas the mayor's 'buddies.' Mamdani responded by planting an olive tree with Palestinians during the speech.
Dozens of delegates walked out of the UN General Assembly as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his speech, in which he forcefully denied allegations of genocide in Gaza and called them 'the biggest lie of the century.'
Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez told the UN General Assembly that the country would hold elections as part of a transition to 'full democracy,' though she did not provide a specific timeline, in her first address since taking power after US forces captured Nicolás Maduro.
President Trump dismissed calls for international agreements on AI guardrails in his UN General Assembly speech, saying the US wants to encourage AI development 'not rein it in.' He also directed all US documents to refer to AI as 'super intelligence.'
President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly he is deciding whether to make a deal with Iran or 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic, while US officials held a three-hour meeting with Iranian representatives in New York.
The UN voted to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator projection toward a map that more accurately reflects countries' true sizes, following a resolution sponsored by African states to counter perceived distortions that minimize Africa's scale.
