An Israeli group campaigning for the release of hostages held in Gaza urged authorities on Tuesday to "act decisively" against Hamas, accusing the group of violating the truce by returning only partial remains of a previously recovered captive.

Gunmen killed at least two people when they opened fire on a coach along the road between Damascus and Druze-majority Sweida in southern Syria on Tuesday, state media reported, months after deadly sectarian clashes in the area.

France has resumed evacuations from Gaza, with 20 people arriving last weekend, diplomatic sources said Tuesday, months after Paris suspended the operation over a student evacuee allegedly sharing antisemitic posts.

Japan's new premier Sanae Takaichi lavished US leader Donald Trump with praise and vows of a "golden age" of ties on his visit to Tokyo Tuesday, before inking a deal with Washington aimed at securing critical minerals.

U.S. forces killed 14 people in strikes that destroyed four alleged drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday, bringing the death toll from Washington's anti-narcotics campaign to at least 57.

Hamas said it would hand over another hostage body Tuesday, as the Palestinian militant group faced accusations of breaching the Gaza ceasefire after returning only the partial remains of a previously recovered captive to Israel.

The Syrian interior ministry said Tuesday it seized about 11 million captagon pills in the southern countryside of Homs.

The pills were smuggled in a car coming from Lebanon, Syria's national news agency said.

Israel said its security forces in the Gaza Strip had received on Monday the remains of a hostage from the Red Cross returned as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.

"Israel has received, through the Red Cross, the coffin of a fallen hostage that was handed over to IDF and Shin Bet forces inside the Gaza Strip," a statement from the prime minister's office said, adding that the body would be transferred to Israel for identification.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the White House said Tuesday.

Trump has become increasingly focused on the Nobel since his return to power in January, and claims to have ended several conflicts around the world, a role that experts, however, downplay.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky urged U.S. President Donald Trump to pressure Chinese leader Xi Jinping to cut his support for Russia when the two leaders meet later this week.

"I think this may be one of (Trump's) strong moves, especially if, following this decisive sanctions step, China is ready to reduce imports" from Russia, Zelensky told journalists, including AFP, at a briefing released Tuesday.