The Biden administration has urged the rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to assume automatic leadership of the country but instead run an inclusive process to form a transitional government, according to two U.S. officials and a congressional aide briefed on the first U.S. contacts with the group.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that any person or company investing at least $1 billion into the U.S. “will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals.”

Prince Harry could be quizzed for four days in the witness box by lawyers for Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) when his lawsuit against the publisher goes to trial next month, London’s High Court was told on Tuesday.

France has started the withdrawal of its military from Chad with the departure of two warplanes that were based in the capital N’Djamena, the French army said, two weeks after Chad said it was ending its defence cooperation pact with Paris.

Russia would not invade NATO as it has too many complications with the fighting in Ukraine, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze said in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the Kremlin, according to the Russian state-run RIA news agency, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Kenyan police fired teargas and arrested at least three people as hundreds protested against a wave of femicides, a Reuters reporter and human rights activists said.

United Nations Security Council members will work on a statement on Syria in the coming days, U.S. and Russian diplomats said, after a closed-door meeting over the rebel seizure of the capital Damascus and ousting of President Bashar al-Assad.

Israel is now more optimistic about a possible hostage deal in Gaza, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday, amid reports that Hamas had asked for lists of all hostages still held by militant groups in the Palestinian enclave.

Germany will close a legal loophole that enabled human traffickers to store the small boats they use to cross the English Channel as part of a broader German-British deal to tackle people smuggling, the British interior ministry said.

The first agreement signed under a trade initiative between Taiwan and the United States will come into force, both governments announced, as Taipei hopes a raft of ongoing talks will eventually lead to a free trade deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will testify for the first time in his long-running corruption trial.