The new president of the International Olympic Committee has disclosed a shift from its conventional stance on setting gender eligibility criteria in sports.

Kirsty Coventry addressed an online news conference after the first executive board meeting of her presidency on Thursday. She had taken over the post from Thomas Bach following a handover ceremony in Switzerland on Monday. Coventry said IOC members agreed that the organization "should take a leading role" in setting up a working group on gender regulations.

The United States said Thursday it has approved its first direct funding for a controversial Israeli-supported relief effort in the Gaza Strip and urged other countries to follow suit. "they have approved funding for $30 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. And we call on other countries to also support the GHF, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and its critical work," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told reporters.

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Thursday marks 80 years since the signing of the United Nations Charter. The UN chief has sounded a strong alarm over what he called "assaults" on the world body's founding document.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed a General Assembly meeting held on Thursday to commemorate the anniversary. He stressed that the world "cannot and must not normalize violations of" the Charter's most basic principles.

Ukraine and Russia on Thursday carried out another round of their prisoner exchange, according to Ukraine's Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. The swap involved soldiers under the age of 25, as well as ill and wounded servicemen from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard and the State Border Guard Service, the agency said in a statement.