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The United States has asked allied countries and China to join a campaign of economic sanctions against Iran, part of President Trump's effort to raise pressure on Tehran during a stalled war.
The United Arab Emirates has stopped all financial transactions and trade with Iran after an Iranian missile reached its territorial waters, the sea area a country controls near its coast.
A drone strike damaged the protective shelter built over Chernobyl's destroyed nuclear reactor.
The United States placed sanctions on Tomoko Akane, a Japanese citizen who heads the International Criminal Court, as part of a wider US campaign against the court.
Trade talks between the United States and Canada have stalled, and Washington is threatening tariffs of up to 50% on Canadian goods.
Internal planning papers show Germany's defence ministry is about to approve almost 100 new weapons contracts, continuing a rearmament push begun after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that carries much of the world's oil, has slowed further, Reuters reports, as the United States threatens new economic penalties on Iran.
The US Defense Secretary said the Navy's blockade around the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage next to Iran through which much of the world's oil passes, can go on indefinitely.
NATO issued a joint statement condemning recent airspace violations and other hybrid incidents.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his government has formally sent Washington a proposal to end the war with Russia.
Beijing announced a joint naval exercise with Indonesia in waters east of Taiwan the same day it told the Pacific Islands Forum to "properly handle" Taiwan's presence at its Palau summit — squeezing Taipei on two fronts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a US-brokered Gaza peace plan, even though Hamas, the group that controls Gaza and has fought Israel there, already agreed to it.