Israel was expected to allow Gaza's sole border crossing to the outside world to reopen Wednesday to allow aid into the devastated territory as part of a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal.

Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the reopening was imminent despite questions over Hamas's ongoing transfer of the remains of deceased hostages, under a swap deal spearheaded by U.S. President Donald Trump after two years of war.

The bodies of 45 Palestinians that had been in Israeli custody were handed over to a Gaza hospital Tuesday, the Nasser Medical Centre 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.

The European rights court Tuesday ordered Russia to pay Georgia over a quarter of a billion euros for preventing people from crossing freely into the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which Moscow recognized as independent after the 2008 war with Tbilisi.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he "will decide what I think is right" on a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Trump made a brief visit to the Middle East to join regional leaders Monday in signing a declaration meant to cement a ceasefire in Gaza after two years of war.

Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to pursue justice two years after an Israeli strike killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP.

The October 13, 2023 attack killed Issam Abdallah and wounded two of his colleagues from Reuters, as well as two people from broadcaster Al Jazeera, and AFP's Dylan Collins and Christina Assi as they were working in south Lebanon near the Israeli border.

Several people were killed over the weekend in Gaza City in violent clashes between Hamas security forces and the members of an armed clan, multiple sources reported on Monday.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday called for negotiations with Israel, after U.S. President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire in Gaza.

"The Lebanese state has previously negotiated with Israel under American and United Nations auspices, resulting in an agreement to demarcate the maritime border... so what prevents the same thing from happening again to find solutions to the outstanding issues," Aoun said according to a presidency statement.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted a peace deal with Iran, after the United States joined Israel in striking the Islamic republic's nuclear sites during a brief war earlier this year.

"They got it from one side, from the other, and you know it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them," Trump said of Iran during a speech to Israel's parliament.

Top Ukrainian officials were traveling to Washington for defense talks with U.S. officials, the presidential office said Monday, as Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine's energy grid and Washington weighs the delivery of long-range missiles.

The team, led by Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, will discuss "strengthening our air defense and strike capabilities" and "enhancing (energy) resilience before winter," Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on social media.

The European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Monday that Russia was "gambling with war", after a spate of Russian drones and military jets crossing into the bloc's airspace.

"Every time a Russian drone or plane violates our airspace, there is a risk of escalation, unintended or not. Russia is gambling with war," she said during a visit to Kyiv, calling on Europe needs to beef up its defense capabilities.