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Pakistan told the United States it doesn't have to follow US sanctions on Iran — penalties meant to cut Iran off from world trade.
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel the visas of up to 200,000 people who entered the US on a tourist or business visa between 2016 and 2026 and then applied for asylum, according to NPR, DW and other outlets.
A projectile struck an oil tanker off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage that nearly all Gulf oil exports must travel through, including from Iran.
The US Treasury Department punished Chinese companies for doing business with Iran and told other countries to cut Iran trade too or face the same sanctions.
Days after the US announced new sanctions on Iran, its currency, the rial, has dropped to its lowest value on record.
Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini says Italy will not take back asylum seekers who first entered the EU through Italy but are now in Germany, even though EU rules say they should be sent back to the first country they entered.
Israel has opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes for Israeli settlers in a West Bank area called E1.
Russia fired missiles and drones at Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, overnight Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 33, the Associated Press reported.
Mykhailo Fedorov, who ran Ukraine's drone program and was recently fired as defence minister, publicly called on President Volodymyr Zelensky to hold elections even though martial law bans voting during the war with Russia.
Kaja Kallas, the European Union's top foreign policy official, has called for a big expansion of the EU's sanctions against Russia.
Czechia's industry minister says the two new nuclear reactors being built at Dukovany by South Korea's KHNP will cost about 700 billion crowns, almost double the roughly 400 billion crowns the government announced in 2024.
Senate Democrats are asking the Trump administration why it has issued no new sanctions in 17 months against networks that help Russia dodge existing sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.