U.S. President Donald Trump warned Thursday that Washington would "take a pass" on talks to end the Ukraine war within days unless there is rapid progress from Moscow and Kyiv.

The United States and Iran are set to resume high-stakes talks Saturday on Tehran's nuclear program, a week after an initial round of discussions that both sides described as "constructive".

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Rome, images broadcast early Saturday by Iranian state television showed, where he was set to join Oman-mediated talks with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Friday hit a vehicle near the southern coastal city of Sidon, killing one person.

Despite a November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of conflict -- including two months of all-out war -- between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has continued to carry out near-daily strikes in Lebanon.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is "not in a rush" to take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities but did not confirm a New York Times report that he had intervened to prevent an Israeli strike.

Hamas has signaled its rejection of Israel's latest truce proposal and called for a "comprehensive" deal to end the 18-month-long war.

U.S. strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 58 people, Houthi rebels said Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks of Washington's renewed campaign against the Iran-backed group.

The strikes also injured around 100 people, according to a Houthi-run television station that broadcast footage of large blazes lighting up the night sky.

Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani said Thursday that Israel had failed to respect January's ceasefire agreement in Gaza, as he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

"As you know, we reached an agreement months ago, but unfortunately Israel did not abide by this agreement," said the ruler of Qatar, a key mediator of the deal.

Former Interior Minister Nohad Machnouq appeared in court Thursday for the first time before judge Tarek Bitar who is investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion, a judicial source told AFP.

The catastrophic blast on August 4, 2020 -- one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history -- devastated large parts of Beirut, killing more than 220 people and injuring over 6,500.

United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Thursday that Iran and the United States were running out of time to secure a deal ahead of a fresh round of nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington.

"We are in a very crucial stage of these important negotiations. We know we don't have much time, this is why I am here... to facilitate this process," Grossi said during a joint press conference in Tehran with the head of Iran's atomic energy agency, Mohammad Eslami.

Hamas accused Israel on Thursday of attempting to starve the population of Gaza following Israel’s renewed declaration the previous day that no humanitarian aid would be allowed into the Palestinian territory.

"This is a public admission of committing a war crime, including the use of starvation as a weapon and the denial of basic necessities such as food, medicine, water, and fuel to innocent civilians for the seventh consecutive week," the Palestinian militant group said in a statement.