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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At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, among the deadliest since a June ceasefire. Meanwhile, Qatar denied holding Iranian pilots. It said it had found the remains of one pilot after an airspace violation and had contacted Iran to coordinate a handover.
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed to a near standstill over the weekend, with five commodity vessels transiting Saturday and none on Sunday. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Washington must meet Tehran's conditions for shipping to resume.
A wildfire in Croatia driven by strong winds descended on the tourist town of Omis overnight, engulfing houses, forcing about 1,000 people to evacuate to safety and injuring dozens, fire brigade and health officials said on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to make the Strait of Hormuz part of U.S. territory have been mocked by Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, who said the sea passage "cannot be seized by tweet."
Residents of villages in eastern Indonesia hit by a deadly earthquake that killed at least 54 people were awaiting aid on Monday as rescuers prepared to comb through collapsed buildings in search of people trapped beneath the rubble.
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed to a near standstill over the weekend, with five commodity vessels transiting Saturday and none on Sunday. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Washington must meet Tehran's conditions for shipping to resume.
At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, among the deadliest since a June ceasefire. Meanwhile, Qatar denied holding Iranian pilots. It said it had found the remains of one pilot after an airspace violation and had contacted Iran to coordinate a handover.
U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to make the Strait of Hormuz part of U.S. territory have been mocked by Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, who said the sea passage "cannot be seized by tweet."
The U.S. will impose unprecedented measures on Iran in order to economically isolate the country, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said.
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over the strategic waterway and insisting it will not reopen until Washington fulfils its commitments under an interim deal.
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