Lebanon will file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council decrying that Israel is building walls in south Lebanon, an accusation Israel has denied, the Lebanese presidency said.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Friday that the Israeli army had built walls in south Lebanon near the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line, the de facto border.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed that they had seized an oil tanker in the Gulf as it sailed away from a UAE port, a day after security companies determined they were likely responsible.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his plea for more air-defense systems a day after Russian strikes on Kyiv killed seven people.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed new joint military exercises by the United States and its ally Trinidad and Tobago as "irresponsible," with Washington increasing its armed presence in the Caribbean.

U.S. President Donald Trump told law enforcement chiefs Friday to investigate links between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Bill Clinton, seeking to deflect growing questions about his own ties to the late alleged sex trafficker.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he has "sort of" made up his mind about Venezuela, as his escalating military deployment in Latin America has ignited concerns about a wider regional conflict.

The U.N. Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, diplomats said.

UNIFIL said Friday that its troops conducted last month a geospatial survey of a concrete T-wall erected by the Israeli army southwest of the Lebanese border town of Yaroun.

“The survey confirmed that the wall crossed the Blue Line, rendering more than 4,000 square meters of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people,” UNIFIL said in a statement.

Lebanon's central bank announced on Friday that money changers and transfer companies must comply with stricter rules as the country faces heavy U.S. pressure to regulate its cash economy and cut off Hezbollah funding.

At about 10 o'clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar's turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms -- a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work.