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“I will now be representing Israel in a position at the heart of the UN. Nothing will stop me – and I mean nothing – from fighting the discrimination in the UN against Israel," Gilad Erdan says.

The US State Department reiterates its opposition to the “open-ended and vaguely defined nature” of the UNHRC's commission of inquiry, saying it "represents a one-sided, biased approach that does nothing to advance the prospects for peace" between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israel has limited its support for Ukraine to humanitarian aid and was the only country operating a field hospital inside the country earlier in the year.

Street fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops raged in Sievierodonetsk as Moscow's forces push to conquer Ukraine's eastern Donbas. Russia warns US media in Moscow they risk losing accreditation.

With the center-left Labor government now in charge, some fear Israel will be unfairly vilified, but supporters of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese say his actions tell a different story.

BDS activists claimed victory after the company sold its stake in a Jerusalem factory, but the decision was pure business, it says.

Two luxury planes owned by the Russian billionaire can be confiscated under US measures imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "Russian oligarchs such as Abramovich will not be permitted to violate US export regulations without consequence," a Commerce Department official says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin lashes out at Western deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, saying they aim to prolong the war. Spain reportedly plans to supply anti-aircraft missiles and up to 40 Leopard 2 A4 battle tanks to Ukraine.

"The possibility to strike a deal and return to JCPOA is shrinking. But we can still do it with an extra effort," Josep Borrell says. IAEA mulls a resolution drafted by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany condemning the Islamic republic's stall tactics.

In the current war, electronic warfare has become a furious theater of contention. Ukraine has scored some successes in countering Russia’s electronic warfare, while its own capability is hard to assess.