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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump over the course of a day went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that the battered Islamic Republic’s leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a 14-day ceasefire that he expects to pave the way to end the nearly six-week-old war. The dramatic shift in tenor came as …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that, based on conversations with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, he will delay the “bombing and attack of Iran” for two weeks. Trump said the decision came after the leaders requested the U.S. “hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran,” which the president previously threatened would …

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday called for maximum restraint and full respect for international law amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. It stressed its rejection of any threats against critical civilian infrastructure. “We have always said that diplomacy is the answer,” Anitta Hipper, the European Commission’s lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, said at …

Over Taiwan’s Qingming holiday weekend, as families cleaned ancestral graves and crowded around dinner tables, a familiar debate has resurfaced: should this island democracy rely more heavily on the United States for its security or try to reduce tensions by engaging with China? For some, the war in Iran has raised urgent questions about how much attention the US can …

Explosions have been reported on Iran’s Kharg Island, from which almost all the country’s oil is exported, according to the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr. Mehr reported “several explosions” but provided no further details. US President Donald Trump has on several occasions threatened to bomb the island or to seize it. On March 30, Trump said in a social media …

The crew of the Artemis 2 lunar mission has travelled further from Earth than any humans ever before, the US space agency NASA announced on Monday. The four astronauts travelled 406,711 kilometres from Earth, eclipsing the 400,171 km record set in 1970 by the crew of the Apollo 13 mission. The Artemis 2 crew – U.S. astronauts Victor Glover, Christina …

UN Secretary General António Guterres called on the United has States and Israel to refrain from attacking Iran’s power plants and other civilian infrastructure, warning that such strikes would violate international law. “Even if specific civilian infrastructure were to qualify as a military objective, international humanitarian law would still prohibit attacks against them if they may be expected to cause …

Eight countries forming the core of the OPEC+ group of oil producers have voiced concern over Iran’s attacks on energy infrastructure as oil shortages persist amid the war in the Middle East. “Restoring damaged energy assets to full capacity is both costly and takes a long time, thereby affecting overall supply availability,” the countries said in a joint statement after …

Nasa has shared the first high-resolution images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew as they pass the halfway point between the Earth and the Moon. The mission’s commander, Reid Wiseman, took the “spectacular” images, Nasa says, after the crew completed a final engine burn that set them on a trajectory towards our closest celestial neighbour. At about …

A Russian drone attack on a market in southern Ukraine has killed five people and injured 21, including a 14-year-old girl, the prosecutor general’s office says. The attack took place at 09:50 (06.50 GMT) in the town of Nikopol, just across the Dnipro river from land occupied by Russia since their full-scale invasion. Pictures published by the regional prosecutor show …