U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he believed that a deal had been struck to end the war on Gaza, following recent talks with Israel and Arab states.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Friday in an angry U.N. address to block a Palestinian state, accusing European leaders of pushing his country into "national suicide" and rewarding Hamas.

Lebanon's former central bank governor Riad Salameh posted more than $14 million in bail Friday after a year in detention over embezzlement allegations, paving the way for his release, a judicial official told AFP.

Salameh, 75, who headed the central bank for three decades, has faced numerous accusations including embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion in separate probes in Lebanon and abroad.

A UK court on Friday threw out a terrorism charge against a Northern Irish singer from the punk rap group Kneecap which had provoked an outcry among their fans.

Israel's defense minister said the military struck Houthi targets in Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa on Thursday, a day after a Houthi-claimed drone attack on the Israeli tourist resort of Eilat.

"We have just dealt a powerful blow to numerous terror targets of the Houthi terror organization in Sanaa," Israel Katz said in a post on X.

North Korea is believed to possess up to two tons of highly enriched uranium, South Korea's unification minister said Thursday.

"Intelligence agencies estimate Pyongyang's stockpile of highly enriched uranium – more than 90 percent pure – at up to 2,000 kilograms," South Korea's unification minister Chung Dong-young told reporters.

U.S. President Donald Trump has presented a plan to end the Gaza war in a meeting with Arab and Muslim leaders this week, his envoy said Wednesday, as Gaza's civil defense agency reported dozens killed in Israeli attacks.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Wednesday he expected a breakthrough related to Gaza in the coming days, saying President Donald Trump had presented a plan to regional countries.

One year after a devastating war with Israel dealt massive blows to Hezbollah, the Iran-backed movement is still managing to pay its fighters and fund its social services.

The killing of its longtime leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on September 27 last year left the Shiite group reeling, yet it has maintained cohesion under his successor, Sheikh Naim Qassem.

A Paris court will rule this week whether former French president Nicolas Sarkozy accepted illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, after his key accuser died on Tuesday in Beirut.