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World leaders arrived in New York for the annual UN General Assembly amid escalating global crises, with António Guterres welcoming them. Andy Burnham was due to hold his first face-to-face meeting with President Trump since becoming Prime Minister and said he expected to find common ground. Iranian officials had strictly controlled access to the US, and the Iranian president was allowed to enter and give a speech despite being at war with the US. Ukraine's president was scheduled to address the Assembly on Wednesday, and a high-level meeting on steps towards an Israel-Palestine two-state solution was to be hosted by the leaders of the UK, France and Canada. Ukraine's President Zelensky was also due to meet Trump, while Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was expected to hold talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, was in New York, the first time a Venezuelan head of state had attended the Assembly in nearly ten years. Trump was set to meet Burnham, Arab Gulf leaders and Zelensky, while China's President Xi was skipping the meeting and flying to Washington for one-on-one meetings and a state dinner.

At the two-state meeting, Andy Burnham, Mark Carney and Emmanuel Macron were to hold talks, with both the US and Israel not attending. The previous year, the UK, Canada and France announced recognition of the state of Palestine, and the UN General Assembly voted to endorse a two-state solution declaration. UNRWA's Christian Saunders described conditions in Gaza, saying over 90 per cent of the population lived in tents, under plastic sheeting or in half-destroyed buildings, with destroyed infrastructure, sewage draining into the eastern Mediterranean, little cultivable land and difficulty getting medicines. He said people were probably not starving but their diet was not good, and called for Israel to be more flexible on items it considered dual use, such as engine oil needed for water pumps, garbage trucks and hospital generators. Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said the Palestinian president and delegation had not been able to attend, that 152 countries voted for the Palestinian delegation to address the General Assembly, and that international pressure and consequences, not just words, were needed; he also said Palestinian elections were scheduled for 28 November and spoke of children starting school and the need for shelter and food as winter approached.

The White House launched an online television channel named Trump TV after major US television networks suspended pooled coverage and protested Donald Trump's decision to ban several broadcasters from the building; the barred outlets said they would sue, and Trump defended the ban on CNN, Politico and MS Now during an event with New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. Protests took place in Austin, Texas, after a US ICE agent shot and wounded a 28-year-old Venezuelan DoorDash delivery driver, Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez; his attorney said he was shot in the torso and later transferred from hospital to a detention center with a bullet still in his back, that he had an active work permit and was now in ICE custody, while a Texas congressman demanded that Homeland Security preserve evidence and release any body-cam video. G7 nations called on the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen to stop attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia and on shipping in the Red Sea, after the UK agreed to provide defensive military support to Saudi Arabia, including air-to-air refuelling of Saudi jets intercepting drones and missiles. The UN said recent fighting had forced nearly 130,000 people from their homes, with thousands fleeing by boat across the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Djibouti, where a camp in Obock housed 3,000 new arrivals. Typhoon Dujuan left at least five people dead in Japan, brought record rainfall around Tokyo and left thousands without power, with flooding in Chiba Prefecture and authorities warning landslides could still occur.