A strike by U.S. forces on a boat in the Caribbean on Thursday left survivors for the first time since Washington started targeting alleged drug-smuggling vessels from Venezuela, U.S. media reported.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he had met with officials from a U.S. firm making the Tomahawk missiles and Patriot systems that Kyiv has been requesting to ramp up defenses against Russia.

"We discussed Raytheon's production capacity, potential avenues for our cooperation to strengthen Ukraine's air defense and long-range capabilities, and the prospects for Ukrainian-American joint production," Zelensky said on social media.

Iran on Friday condemned strikes by its arch-foe Israel on southern Lebanon, a stronghold of its close ally Hezbollah.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the strikes were a "blatant violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity," in a statement.

Lebanon's economy minister has said that the country was turning the page to growth after years of crisis but called for greater reforms.

Lebanon expects five percent growth this year, the highest since 2011, Economy Minister Amer Bisat said Thursday as he attended fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

A series of violent Israeli airstrikes targeted south Lebanon on Thursday afternoon and evening, killing one person and wounding seven others, with media reports describing them as among the fiercest since the November ceasefire.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Thursday the bloc had no choice but to build up its anti-drone defenses against Russia, as Brussels unveiled a "roadmap" to prepare for potential conflict by 2030.

Israel returned the bodies of 30 Palestinians to Gaza on Thursday, bringing the total number handed over to 120, the Hamas-run health ministry and Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis said.

Under a ceasefire deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned.

Greece's parliament on Thursday passed a controversial reform that would allow 13-hour work days under exceptional circumstances.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel was "determined" to secure the return  of the remains of all hostages still held in Gaza, vowing that the "fight is not over yet".

"We are determined to secure the return of all hostages," Netanyahu said at a state ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, marking the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war.

Violence at a youth-led protest in Peru's capital on Wednesday left one man dead and more than 100 people injured, authorities in the South American country said.

President Jose Jeri announced on X "the death of 32-year-old citizen Eduardo Ruiz Sanz," and the Ombudsman's Office said more than 100 people were injured, updating earlier tolls.