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The Prime Minister intervened diplomatically after 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan ended without an agreement on Iran's nuclear program, raising fears of renewed confrontation between the United States and Iran in one of the world's most strategically sensitive maritime corridors.

Ben-Gvir's visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is considered a violation of the status quo agreement and a desecration of its sanctity, according to Jordan's Foreign Ministry.

The deal talks are expected to resume later on Sunday, with the seemingly never-ending meeting suggesting that both sides remained engaged and still had topics to discuss.

We have been able to bring justice to them, or bring them to justice. So this is the clear signal that we are sending.

Three supertankers laden with oil have passed through the Strait of Hormuz amid the fragile truce between the United States and Iran, according to shipping data. Iran's blockade of the strait has disrupted global energy supplies and sent oil prices soaring since the start of the US and Israel's war on Iran.

China will explore setting up a regular communication mechanism between the ruling Communist Party and Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang, aiming to enhance dialogue and cooperation.

The deployment came under a collective defence agreement signed in September 2025, which commits each country to treat an attack on the other as an attack on itself.

The reopening of Hormuz is critical to the world's oil trade because its closure has resulted in the loss of millions of barrels of supply to global markets. A resumption would alleviate pressure on increasingly tight physical markets everywhere.

The catastrophe of the Iran war and the homegrown chaos of this week has once again laid bare the urgent need to reduce our vulnerability to the never-ending cycle of energy shocks.

Cyclone Vaianu is forecast to bring heavy rain and winds of up to 130 km/h, with authorities warning of potential coastal flooding and landslides.