Dozens of people have been charged across NSW during a widespread police operation.

From Thursday morning to Saturday morning, police charged 140 people and seized five guns, 61 knives and a set of knuckledusters, in an operation targeting knife crime and "anti-social behaviours".

The 48-hour police blitz saw arrests made in Kincumber, Bankstown, Manly and Arndell Park and charges laid for weapons related offences, drug detections, outstanding warrants and bail condition breaches.

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More than 4000 random breath tests were also conducted across "known hotspots and districts throughout the state".

Police drug detection dogs were deployed to train stations around the city.

Detective acting Superintendent Glen Parks said Operation Foil had been a huge success.

"Operations such as this one is about keeping the public safe," he said.

"The fact we were able to get five firearms and 61 knives off the street demonstrates the success of the operation."

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The number of knives carried by young people stood out as cause for alarm.

"It is still concerning that we still have a portion of the community who chose to carry knives; and it's particularly concerning that a large number of these are young people," he said.

As part of the operation, a 30-year-old man was arrested in Kincumber, on the NSW central coast. Police allege the man was wanted for a number of offences including possessing a firearm, supplying prohibited drugs and kidnapping.

The man was charged with 18 offences and refused bail, to appear before Gosford Local Court in November.

On Thursday evening, a 46-year-old man was allegedly found with a set of knuckledusters at Bankstown station in Sydney's south-west.

Police charged him over the possession of the prohibited weapon.

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In another arrest made during the operation, a woman was arrested after a police chase along Reservoir Road in Arndell Park.

After the woman allegedly refused to stop, police deployed road spikes, bringing the vehicle to a stop.

She was charged for driving while disqualified, driving recklessly and drug possession.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has allegedly been assaulted while out in her local electorate.

It's understood Fyles was at Nightcliff Markets in Darwin about 11.40am when a member of the public, believed to be a woman, pushed a cream-covered crepe into Fyles' face.

9News understands Fyles has spoken with police since the incident.

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Police have said they "are investigating an incident that occurred at Nightcliff Markets about 11.40am this morning".

9News has been told Fyles usually attends the markets on a Sunday.

The minister has not yet made a statement but is due to front the media for an appearance on another matter tomorrow.

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After a week at the UN General Assembly dominated by discussion of Russia's war in Ukraine, Moscow struck back on Saturday, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressing delegates first in a speech to the General Assembly hall.

He then turned to the international press in a wide-ranging briefing full of recriminations against the West – which he described as an "empire of lies".

"In the speeches of many speakers who spoke before me, the idea was already voiced that our common planet is undergoing irreversible changes, and a new world order is being born before our eyes," Lavrov said in his address to fellow member states.

"The contours of the future are being created in the struggle between the world majority, who advocate a more equitable distribution of global wealth and civilizational diversity, and between those few who use neocolonial methods of subjugation to maintain their elusive dominance."

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Lavrov would not have been the first this week to argue that outdated global governance structures are hampering momentum toward climate and economic justice.

But his focus was on Ukraine's Western backers and NATO – a mutual defence organisation formed in the aftermath of World War II to defend Western nations from the Soviet Union.

As Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on and Western allies continue to funnel military assistance to Kyiv, Lavrov warned on Saturday that he considered the US and UK and others to be "directly at war with us".

"We can call this a hybrid war but that doesn't change the reality," Lavrov told journalists.

"They are effectively engaged in hostilities with us using the Ukrainians as fodder."

Lavrov dismissed a peace framework proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "not feasible".

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The plan does not contemplate ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia or abandoning Kyiv's efforts to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – two sticking points for Moscow.

The Russian Foreign Minister also shut down the possibility of Russia returning to the Black Sea grain deal, saying the Kremlin felt it had been deceived.

"The main reason why we left this deal and it ceased to exist is that everything that was promised to us turned out to be a deception," Lavrov said.

Russia withdrew from the UN-brokered deal in July, after saying for some time that it had been prevented from adequately exporting its own foodstuffs.

The now-collapsed deal had allowed Ukraine to export much-needed grain by sea, with ships bypassing a Russian blockade in order to reach global markets.

The UN, created in the 1940s, does reflect a previous era, with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council wielding a disproportionate amount of power in the organisation.

But as one of those so-called P5 countries, Russia has also significantly benefited from the existing structure, notably vetoing resolutions about its war in Ukraine.

Among the many proposed reforms to the UN from various corners, Ukraine has said Russia should be stripped of its Security Council veto power and expelled from the organisation for breaching a fundamental tenet of the UN – violating the territorial sovereignty of a fellow member-state.

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Shocking video has emerged of two hooded figures catching a ride on the back of a train in Melbourne.

The pair can be seen narrowly avoiding the power lines hanging just centimetres above the carriage carrying 1500 volts of electricity.

Metro Trains has slammed the stunt, labelling it "stupidity of the highest order".

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The two would-be "subway surfers" can be seen precariously perched on the back of the train as it pulls away from the platform in the vision.

As the train departs, the pair wave to the camera.

A spokesperson for Metro Trains was quick to respond to the footage.

"Melbourne's rail network is not a playground, and those who treat it like one are only putting themselves at risk of serious injury or death," the spokesperson said.

"Train surfing and coupler riding is stupidity of the highest order – and no stunt, thrill or social media post is worth a life."

"Beyond the obvious risk to life, these incidents can stop train services in their tracks and cause significant and unnecessary disruption to passengers."

The dangerous act can also be met with fines of more than $400.

Metro trains' security team is working with Victoria Police to investigate incidents of train surfing, coupler riding and trespassing.

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In April, NSW authorities launched a crackdown on the potentially deadly act of clinging onto the back of speeding trains

Transport bosses warned of a spike in the "extremely dangerous and stupid" crime.

Trains bosses said incidents are rising, up over 13 per cent since 2021, with school holidays also to blame for the spike.

Eleven people have died because of illegal trespassing in rail corridors in the past five years, including people in the past year, Sydney Trains said.