Foreign ministers and senior diplomats from leading rich and developing countries focused on global conflicts, mainly on the Russia-Ukraine war, on Friday, the last day of their meeting in South Africa.

The emphasis on artificial intelligence and drone capabilities represents a change at this year’s International Maritime Exercise, which normally focuses on mines and explosive ordnance disposal, among other training.

President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war with Russia and praised the Ukrainian leader as an “embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war.”

Rwanda’s government on Friday asserted solidarity with a top official sanctioned by the U.S. over violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in an armed conflict that now threatens the Congolese government.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was an attempt at “a chain of mass bus bombings” and said the IDF must “carry out an intensive operation” in the West Bank. He also said Hamas would pay “the full price” after a body it released on Thursday was not that of a mother taken hostage, as the militant group said it would be.

Political and military leaders in Europe are fleshing out details of a plan for European forces to help ensure Moscow does not attack Ukraine again once the guns fall silent.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he will immediately begin shifting billions of dollars away from nonlethal programs in connection with a broader reorganization of military priorities.

Japanese police are investigating a bomb threat against Yokota Air Base, the U.S. military hub in western Tokyo that also serves as the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan.

The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team is seeking more member countries.

More than 100 high school students — the children of Navy parents and Defense Department employees — staged a half-hour walkout Friday morning to protest Pentagon policies targeting diversity programs.