Iran has said it will only reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage that much of the world's oil ships through, if the United States lifts its economic sanctions on Iran.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin threatened to seize ships flying European Union flags anywhere from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
Two US human rights groups, DAWN and the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, are suing the Trump administration over sanctions it placed on the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes tribunal.
President Trump said the United States is taking a low-key approach in its standoff with Iran, preferring economic pressure over military action.
An oil tanker near Oman reported hearing two explosions in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea passage Gulf countries use to ship oil to world markets.
The European Commission has given Ukraine an initial €1.4 billion, paid for not with Russia's frozen central bank reserves themselves but with the interest those reserves have earned since being frozen after Russia's 2022 invasion.
China announced new measures against the United States, including putting American firms on a trade blacklist and tightening controls on drone exports.
A Ukrainian drone strike hit an industrial area outside Moscow, killing five people and wounding six, according to the regional governor.
Chinese companies are giving Iran satellite reconnaissance help and drone parts, while China keeps buying Iranian oil, according to Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
The Council of the European Union, the body where the 27 member governments make decisions, has formally turned the bloc's 21st set of penalties on Russia into law.
EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels as a growing group of capitals push for trade restrictions on Israeli settlement goods. Germany has emerged as the key holdout, leaving the Commission short of the qualified majority it needs to act.
Volodymyr Zelensky's cabinet reshuffle was already reshaping Kyiv's wartime strategy. Then Lindsey Graham, the sanctions bill's chief architect in the Senate, died hours after his last visit to the Ukrainian capital.