This year will conclude as the second hottest on record, surpassed only by 2024. It continues a recent trend of exceptional, unexplained warming. The last three years have been, by a wide margin, the hottest ever recorded.

Israel launched a series of strikes in Lebanon early on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, amid a further wave of attacks from Hezbollah and Iran. "The IDF has begun striking Hezbollah infrastructure sites in Beirut," the military said in a statement on Telegram.

The delegation, organized by the European Division of the Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, aims to deepen future German leaders' understanding of the "Israeli story. " Establishing a Palestinian state would be the same as establishing a "Hamas terror state," Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in a speech welcoming a delegation of young German leaders on Sunday.