The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen.
Denmark’s Aalborg airport closed due to drones, two days after Copenhagen incursion
Denmark’s Aalborg airport is currently closed due to drones in its airspace, local police say early on Thursday, two days after the country’s main Copenhagen airport was shut over drone sightings that rattled European aviation.
Danish national police say the drones followed a similar pattern to the ones that had halted flights at Copenhagen airport for four hours a few days earlier. The country’s armed forces are also affected, as Aalborg airport is used as a military base, they add.
Denmark said on Tuesday the incident at Copenhagen airport was the most serious attack yet on its critical infrastructure and linked it to a series of suspected Russian drone incursions and other disruptions across Europe.
Authorities in Norway also shut the airspace at Oslo airport for three hours on Monday evening after a drone was seen.
Northern Jutland police tells reporters that “more than one drone” had been sighted near Aalborg airport and they were flying with lights on.
The drones were first sighted at about 9:44 p.m. local time on Wednesday, according to police, and remained in the airspace at the time of the press briefing at 12:05 a.m. on Thursday.
Northern Jutland police say they cannot specify the type of drones or whether they were the same as the ones flying over Copenhagen airport on Monday.
“It is too early to say what the goal of the drones is and who is the actor behind,” a police official says.
Eurocontrol, which oversees European air traffic control, says arrivals and departures at Aalborg airport will be at a “zero rate” until 4 a.m. GMT on Thursday due to drone activity in the vicinity.
Police say they are investigating further on site and there is no danger to passengers at the airport or residents in the area.
They add that three flights had been diverted to other airports.
Syria’s Sharaa meets Trump on sidelines of UN summit
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Syrian state news agency SANA says.
SANA releases two photographs showing Sharaa shaking hands with Trump, with First Lady Melania Trump also present. The agency provides no further details.
This was the second meeting between the two leaders, following their talks in the Saudi capital of Riyadh in May.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been angling for a three-way parley between himself, Trump and Sharaa on the sidelines of the summit.
Trump says Secret Service probing ‘triple sabotage’ during UN appearance
US President Donald Trump says the Secret Service is investigating what he describes as “sabotage” at the United Nations, alleging that an escalator malfunction, a teleprompter failure and sound problems disrupted his appearance at the world body a day earlier.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, says an escalator carrying him and his wife Melania “came to a screeching halt” on the way to the main floor, nearly causing them to fall. He called for the arrest of whoever was responsible.
He also says his teleprompter went dark at the start of his speech, forcing him to ad-lib for 15 minutes, and that world leaders in the hall could not hear him because the sound system had failed.
“Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!” Trump writes.
UN officials have said the escalator’s built-in safety mechanism had been triggered, possibly by Trump’s own photographer, and that the teleprompter was operated by the White House, not the organization.
Calling the series of events “triple sabotage,” Trump says he had asked the UN to preserve security camera footage and demanded an investigation.
UN officials do not immediately respond to a request for a comment on Trump’s call for an investigation.
Responding to the allegation that delegates had not been able to hear Trump, a UN official says the sound system was designed to allow people at their seats to hear speeches being translated into six different languages through earpieces.
Despite some blackouts, Kimmel pulled in big audience for comeback, ABC says
ABC reports that nearly 6.3 million people tuned in to see Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback after he was taken off the air for several days over comments that angered supporters of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, despite several stations maintaining blackouts of the late-night comedian.
As is often the case with late-night hosts’ monologues, there was a larger audience online, with more than 15 million people watching Kimmel’s opening remarks on YouTube by Wednesday evening.
ABC says more than 26 million people watched Kimmel’s return on social media, including YouTube.
Typically, he gets about 1.8 million viewers each night on television. The numbers released by ABC do not include viewership from streaming services.
Both the Nexstar and Sinclair groups, which own dozens of ABC affiliates around the country, kept Kimmel off the air Tuesday.
A spokesman for Nexstar says Kimmel will continue to be preempted from its stations while the company evaluates his show.
“We are engaged in productive discussions with executives at the [ABC parent] Walt Disney Co., with a focus on ensuring the program reflects and respects the diverse interests of the communities we serve,” Nexstar says.
Israel accuses Abbas of seeking to excise Israel due to key-shaped pin in UN speech
The Foreign Ministry accuses Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of seeking to erase Israel, noticing a pin in the shape of a key seen on his lapel when he addressed a UN conference by video on Monday.
In a post on X, the ministry calls the pin “an unmistakable symbol of his goal of erasing Israel,” accusing the Palestinian leader of “dangerous duplicity.”
“While Hamas called the October 7 massacre the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’, Abbas wants his own flood under the guise of two states: millions of descendants of Arabs who left Israel in 1948 pushed into Israel to erase the only Jewish State,” the ministry writes.
The dangerous duplicity of Mahmoud Abbas. In his speech addressing the UN General Assembly he wore a “key” pin – an unmistakable symbol of his goal of erasing Israel.
While Hamas called the October 7 massacre the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, Abbas wants his own flood under the guise of two… pic.twitter.com/ET1hqIGDfN
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) September 24, 2025
Descendants of Palestinians who left their homes during Israel’s 1947-1949 War of Independence sometimes wear or display keys as a symbol of their yearning to return to those homes, with the so-called right of return once seen as a major sticking point in long-moribund efforts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian accommodation.
Israel argues that allowing Palestinians to return would result in an influx that would threaten its character as Jewish and democratic, demanding that the children and grandchildren of those who left no longer be recognized as refugees.
“It is long overdue for Arab states to grant citizenship to the descendants of those who left in 1948,” the ministry writes.
Pictures show that Abbas has worn the key pin in nearly every public appearance dating back to May 2023, when the UN marked 75 years since the Nakba, or Catastrophe, the term given by Palestinians to the creation of Israel and the loss of their homes.