Conflicts in Mideast, Ukraine will loom over Biden’s farewell address at UN

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President Joe Biden is set to deliver his final address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon are edging toward all-out war and Israels bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza nears the one-year mark...

Biden is expected to use his wide-ranging address to speak to the need to end the Middle East conflict and the 17-month-old civil war in Sudan and to highlight US and Western allies support for Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022...

His appearance before the international body also offers Biden one of his last high-profile opportunities as president to make the case to keep up robust support for Ukraine, which could be in doubt if former President Donald Trump, who has scoffed at the cost of the war, defeats Vice President Kamala Harris in November...

But his foreign policy legacy may ultimately be shaped by his administrations response to two of the biggest conflicts in Europe and the Middle East since World War II...

Hamas militants stormed into Israel killing 1,200, taking some 250 hostages, and spurring a bloody war that has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza and led the region into a complicated downward spiral...

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