Pep Guardiola said Friday that the "real season starts now" as Manchester City seek to hunt down Arsenal at the top of the Premier League.

City closed the gap to the Gunners to four points before the recent international break, thumping champions Liverpool 3-0 after Arsenal dropped points in a 2-2 draw at Sunderland.

Paul Pogba has lost none of his "vision and technique" despite not playing for more than two years, his Monaco coach Sebastien Pocognoli said on Friday, as he weighs up whether to hand the 2018 World Cup winner his club debut.

The 32-year-old is widely expected to make his first appearance on a football pitch since September 2023, when Monaco travel to Rennes on Saturday.

Russia is looking to use the U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine to stall sanctions from Washington and EU talks on using Moscow's frozen assets to fund Kyiv, the bloc's top diplomat said Friday.

An Indian fighter jet crashed during a flying display at the Dubai Airshow on Friday, killing the pilot in front of hundreds of shocked onlookers.

The Israeli army said it killed five Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday in an area under its control.

The Palestinian health ministry said Friday that Israeli forces fatally shot two teenagers overnight in the town of Kufr Aqab in the occupied West Bank.

"The young man Amr Khaled Ahmed Al-Marbou (18) and the boy Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashayekh (16) were martyred by occupation forces gunfire in the town of Kufr Aqab near Ramallah," the ministry said in a statement.

Israeli and U.S. pressure on Lebanon's army to speedily disarm Hezbollah is intensifying, with the army chief cancelling a visit to Washington after officials snubbed him, a military official told AFP.

Lebanon's army has been beefing up its presence in south Lebanon near the Israeli border since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire last November sought to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group.

The French Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the intensification of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon and called for Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territory.

"Israel must respect Syrian territory," the statement read.

Marina El Khawand was 18 when she saw her hometown of Beirut shattered by the giant 2020 port explosion and decided she needed to help.

Today, at 24, she is among five laureates at Thursday's Young Activists Summit awards at the U.N. in Geneva, and described how the trauma of that day spawned a movement that has helped provide free medication and consultation to thousands in need.

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday adopted a resolution that called on Iran to provide it with access and information regarding its nuclear program, as required under U.N. resolutions.

The resolution "urges Iran to comply fully and without delay with its legal obligations under... UNSC resolutions and to extend full and prompt cooperation to the IAEA, including by providing such information and access that the Agency requests," said the text, which was adopted by a vote of 19 for, three against and 12 abstentions.