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Iran’s first vice president says the outcome of the high-stakes negotiations in Islamabad rests entirely on US priorities.

Ukrainian authorities have charged three people over the deportation of 35 children from the occupied region to Russia, in a case Kyiv says amounts to a war crime.

Pakistan has confirmed the arrival of a senior Iranian delegation in Islamabad ahead of expected negotiations with the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States will have the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil shipping route, "open fairly soon," while stressing that his "number one" goal in upcoming negotiations with Iran is to ensure that Tehran has "no nuclear weapon."

Ali Vaez, Director of the Iran Project at International Crisis Group, has warned that negotiations between the United States and Iran are starting from a deeply negative level of trust, making any diplomatic breakthrough extremely difficult.
According to Vaez, Iran has at least three major reasons for mistrust.

The 22-year-old beauty queen is accused of killing her newborn child after giving birth in the bedroom of her off-campus home during the first week of classes at the University of Kentucky in Aug. 2025.

Six people have been killed in an air strike in southern Lebanon after a car wash facility was hit in the town of Jba’a, local media reported.

France is leading a multinational planning effort involving around 20 countries to ensure the safe passage of commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, with naval escorts considered if necessary, Defense Minister Catherine Vautrin said.

Chairman of Turkmenistan’s Halk Maslahaty (People’s Council) Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met Head of the Turkmen-Austrian Society Neda Berger in Vienna on Thursday to discuss prospects for expanding trade, financial, and investment cooperation between the two countries.