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Iranian FM Araghchi to visit Pakistan as talks with US set to resume

ships and fire at a third. By the middle of the week, it was uncertain whether the second round of US-Iran talks would happen. That dynamic changed on Friday morning. ## Flurry of calls Araghchi

Trump’s May 1 deadline: Can he continue war on Iran after that?

restrict a US president’s authority to involve the country in armed conflict overseas. Under the resolution, the president must inform Congress within 48 hours of initiating military action and may sustain deployments for only

How the Trump-Xi summit could set superpower relations for many years to come

ships attempting to transit Hormuz after it, and Russia vetoed an earlier proposal. "I think if we're going to bring Iran back to the negotiating table in an enduring way, I think that

Did Netanyahu really ‘defy’ Trump in bombing Iran?

shipped during peacetime, global energy markets were rattled and oil prices surged. Mekelberg said Washington had appeared unprepared for a scenario many analysts had long warned was inevitable. “The United States didn’t appear

Some fear US-Philippines war games are drawing conflict closer to home

Strait of Hormuz also sent a message to China, Iran’s main trading partner. The Philippines, Simbulan added, is now critical to Washington as US military facilities in the Philippines are key for its “refuelling

Trump-Xi meeting: Could China, US form a ‘G2’?

shipped from the Middle East. Trump is likely to renew calls for China to join an “international operation” to [open the Strait of Hormuz](/news/2026/5/4/us-official-says-china-is-funding-iran-urges-beijing-to-help-open-hormuz), which Beijing has so far resisted. Xi is expected

Strait of Hormuz blockade and other major naval sieges in modern times

Strait of [Hormuz](/news/2026/4/24/trumps-may-1-deadline-can-he-continue-war-on-iran-after-that), a narrow waterway once carrying roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, remains effectively closed after the United States and Iran imposed competing [blockades](/news/2026/4/14/how-much-will-us-hormuz-blockade-hurt-iran-and-does-tehran-have-an-escape). Naval blockades

Cloud over US-Iran talks: What are the key sticking points?

shipping,” Geist Pinfold noted, calling this “completely different to the demands of the US on paper but also the demands of the US’s regional allies like the Gulf states and Israel, … who would regard

Are Iran, US really close to a breakthrough ‘deal’?

restricted Iran to enriching uranium for power purposes only, Iran is understood to have built a stockpile of 440kg of 60 percent-enriched uranium, a level far beyond that required for power purposes. “[Iran

Push to bring US and Iran together for peace talks as ceasefire deadline looms

Ship-tracking data showed the vessel in the Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka and Indonesia around the time when it was intercepted. ![Preparations in Islamabad for expected second round of US-Iran talks.](https://i.guim.co.uk

'Bit of pain' worth long-term security from Iran, Bessent tells BBC

shipping route effectively closed and peace talks between the US and Iran failed. The IMF said: "Once again, the global economy is threatened with being thrown off course - this time by the outbreak

Thursday briefing: ​Why the US president is losing support from crucial allies

strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the shipping waterway. 3. ***West Bank*** | Two Palestinians, including a [14-year-old schoolboy](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/palestinian-boy-14-among-two-killed-in-settler-attack-west-bank-school), were killed

What was the Iran nuclear deal Trump dumped in search of ‘better’ terms?

shipping sector, banking system and other key industries. The goal was to force Iran back to the negotiating table to agree to a new deal, which also included a discussion about Tehran’s missile capabilities

The threat to summer holidays looming from jet fuel shortages

Strait of Hormuz having been blocked for the past eight weeks, however, those supplies have not been available, prompting a scramble for fuel produced elsewhere. This has pushed up prices dramatically. In late February, before

Why are anti-war protests in the West muted on Iran?

Hormuz soon after the war started, except for ships belonging to countries that negotiated separate deals. On Monday the US began a naval blockade of all Iran-linked ships trying to pass through the strait

Trump says U.S. and Iran nearing a peace deal. And, Pope Leo weighs in on AI's rise

Hormuz. But on Sunday, he said in a series of social media posts that the U.S. would not rush into an agreement. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that if a deal

Trump's Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an extremely online president

Ships, some of them relatively large and important"). Mid-afternoon, he posted a string of Trump-friendly news coverage, including a [*New York Post* article from September 2024](https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/us-news/lady-gagas-father-joe-germanotta-endorses-trump-in-2024-race/) about how [Lady Gaga