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The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday of the risk of famine in Gaza, a day after the United States said Israel had been urged to improve aid deliveries to the territory.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a phone call Wednesday to discuss the ongoing conflicts in Lebanon and Ukraine, according to Turkish diplomatic sources.

BELGRADE - KFOR and the so-called Kosovo Police have provided no response to a Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) query about a recent death threat to Tanjug journalists, while the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo-Metohija (EULEX) said it had no mandate to investigate it and UNMIK - the UN mission in Serbia's autonomous province - informed the UN special rapporteur for freedom of opinion

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will pay a visit to Türkiye, Egypt and Jordan as part of his Middle East tour to discuss ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, his office announced on Oct. 16.

Araghchi will engage in talks in a "diplomatic reach-out to countries of the region to end genocide, atrocity and aggression," the statement said.

Israeli airstrikes this morning targeted southern suburbs of Beru, eyewitnesses told Reuters, hours after the U.S. warned that it opposes the scope of Israel’s attacks on the Lebanese capital, amid rising death tolls and concerns about further escalation of the conflict in the region involving Iran.

Iran's top diplomat has warned U.N. chief Antonio Guterres that Tehran is ready for a "decisive and regretful" response if Israel attacks his country in retaliation for a missile attack.

Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met on Tuesday in New York for informal talks hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and agreed to meet again soon to discuss discuss "the way forward" on stalled reunification talks.

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Ersin Tatar announced Tuesday that Türkiye and Greece would participate in the next meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the Cyprus issue.

The announcement came after an informal dinner at U.N. headquarters in New York, with Nikos Christodoulides, leader of the Greek Cypriot administration.

The French insistence on ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon and the upcoming US presidential election creates a pressing context for Benjamin Netanyahu.