After U.S. President Donald Trump said he would pause attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure for 10 days, G7 Foreign Ministers, including the U.S., called for an end to attacks on civilians in the Iran war.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was pausing attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure until 6 April at Tehran’s request in a social media post. He added that negotiations with the Iranian government were “going very well.”
Despite this, an Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran had rejected a U.S. peace proposal, while the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran didn’t ask for a pause to strikes on its energy infrastructure.
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in France condemned the targeting of civilians and called for the safe and free passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
“We have issued a statement saying that civilians must be clearly protected. We cannot support civilians or diplomatic institutions being used as targets,” he told a press conference at Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey near Paris.
Iranian media reported that the death toll from a U.S.-Israeli attack on the city of Qom in central Iran on Thursday (26 March) had risen to 18.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military said that it had carried out large-scale attacks against infrastructure in the Iranian capital Tehran.
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has resulted in thousands of tonnes of tea piling up in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, as global transit continues to be interrupted by Iran’s blockade of the waterway.
Financial journalist Ken Karuri has a piece for AnewZ about how the continued disruption is starting to cause problems for tea traders as payments are delayed.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were targeted by Iranian drones on Friday. Kuwait’s Shuwaikh Port was damaged in the strike, while Saudi Arabia intercepted the drones before they hit.
The fresh strikes came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to share drone defence technology.
Since the start of the Middle East conflict, Riyadh has faced the same kind of ballistic missile and drone attacks from Iran as Ukraine has been suffering from Moscow since Russia invaded in 2022.
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British police have arrested a fourth person in connection with an arson attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish community charity. The arrest took place at a London court on Saturday, where three other suspects were already appearing.
Senegal has taken steps to curb government spending by banning non-essential foreign travel for ministers, as rising global oil prices place increasing pressure on the country’s finances.
One U.S. crew member has been rescued after two American warplanes were downed over Iran and the Gulf, as the search continues for a missing pilot, while President Donald Trump has given Tehran 48 hours to agree to a deal to end the war.
The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote next week on a Bahraini resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and protect commercial shipping, diplomats said on Friday, amid opposition from China to any authorisation of force.
One crew member from a U.S. warplane shot down over Iran has been rescued, U.S. officials said, as a search continues for a second crew member.
The global commodities market is facing a severe structural supply shock after a series of coordinated military strikes in the Middle East devastated critical industrial infrastructure, threatening the manufacturing base of Western economies.
More than 1.1 million people have been forced from their homes in Lebanon, according to the United Nations, as the UN spokesman says the humanitarian situation is worsening. Israel recently announced it intends to annex part of Southern Lebanon.
The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote next week on a Bahraini resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and protect commercial shipping, diplomats said on Friday, amid opposition from China to any authorisation of force.
One U.S. crew member has been rescued after two American warplanes were downed over Iran and the Gulf, as the search continues for a missing pilot, while President Donald Trump has given Tehran 48 hours to agree to a deal to end the war.
Iran has strongly condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb the country “back to the Stone Age”, calling his remarks an example of “war crimes and genocide.”
International law experts from across the U.S., including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, have signed an open letter saying the strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes. America and Israel began airstrikes on 28 February on Iran's capital, Tehran.
The global commodities market is facing a severe structural supply shock after a series of coordinated military strikes in the Middle East devastated critical industrial infrastructure, threatening the manufacturing base of Western economies.
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