Joe Biden uses his final UN speech to warn against all-out war in Middle East 

'Full-scale war is not in anyone’s interest,' US president Joe Biden told the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Picture: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

US president Joe Biden has used his last UN speech to warn against "all-out war" in the Middle East.

However, Mr Biden's address to the UN General Assembly, which opened in New York on Tuesday, defended the Israeli right to defend itself.