France rebukes world over Gaza as Canada, UK back Palestinian state at UNGA - Al Jazeera

Council on Foreign RelationsDuring the annual UN General Assembly, government and business leaders spoke at CFR about strengthening alliances and partnerships, reforming the global financial system, and managing security pressures—from the African Sahel to the South China Sea. By experts and staffPublishedOctober 1, 2026 4:08 p.m. The 2026 UN General Assembly was held under a telling theme: restoring trust and managing transformation. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned of widening global fault lines, world leaders who spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) last week focused on the practical stakes for their own countries and regions, including how to attract investment, the need for reform at the United Nations, and ways to handle increased conflict. Here is what they told CFR audiences. Mexican Foreign Secretary Roberto Velasco Outlines Investment Priorities, Regional RelationsMexico is seeing a “strong recovery” in private, national, and foreign investment, said Velasco, emphasizing the government’s efforts to create “longer-term certainty” for investors.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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