Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for his country to be given 25 Patriot air defense missiles to help it fend off escalating Russian aerial attacks.

Speaking in Kyiv after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and American weapons makers, Zelensky told reporters in remarks published Monday that "these are 25 systems that we need", adding that Russia's frozen assets in the West should be used to buy them.

An Israeli strike on a construction vehicle in southern Lebanon killed a man, the Lebanese health ministry reported on Saturday.

The Israeli government said on Sunday that Hamas has handed over more hostage remains, as delays in finding bodies buried under the rubble of Gaza threatened the fragile ceasefire.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to an "immediate ceasefire" at talks in Doha, after at least 10 Afghans were killed in Pakistani air strikes that broke an earlier truce.

Pakistan officials will hold talks in Qatar Saturday with their Afghan counterparts, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes on its neighbour killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.

Iran said on Saturday that it was no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear program as a landmark 10-year deal between it and world powers expired, though Tehran reiterated its "commitment to diplomacy".

Gaza's civil defense agency said that Israeli forces killed nine people in an attack on a bus Friday, while the military stated it had fired at a vehicle that crossed the so-called "yellow line".

A team of Turkish disaster response specialists is stationed at the Egyptian border, awaiting Israeli authorization to enter Gaza and help in search and recovery operations, a Turkish official told AFP on Friday.

Israeli forces shot dead an 11-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank, his family and health officials said Friday, while the army said its troops opened fire at rock throwers.

A United Nations special rapporteur told AFP on Friday that deadly Israeli strikes on ostensibly civilian vehicles in Lebanon since last year's ceasefire could amount to war crimes, despite Israel's assertion they targeted Hezbollah members.

Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon in spite of the November 2024 truce, which sought to end more than a year of hostilities with the Iran-backed group that culminated in two months of open war.