IRAN’S Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi urged other countries to refrain from any action that could widen the scope of the war with Israel and the United States.
♦ A British minister said it was essential to calm the situation in the Middle East after US President Donald Trump demanded that other nations help protect world oil supplies passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
♦ Overnight strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least four people, Lebanese state media and the government said, as Israel said it was pressing its campaign against Iranbacked Hezbollah.
♦ Israel’s military said it began a broad wave of strikes on western Iran, more than two weeks into the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.
♦ Iraq warned that drone attacks near Baghdad airport threatened the security of the nearby prison housing Islamic State group suspects recently brought from Syria.
♦ Ukraine does not want to lose US support for its struggle against Russia as a result of Washington’s war with Iran, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told journalists.
♦ Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to “pursue and kill” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to their website Sepah News.
♦ The Pentagon released the identities of six US crew members killed during the crash of a refuelling aircraft in western Iraq earlier this week, which authorities said was not caused by “hostile fire”.
♦ South Korea is evacuating 204 of its citizens and seven other nationals from the Middle East using a military aircraft, the foreign ministry said, calling the operation “unprecedented”.
♦ Explosions rang out over Bahrain’s capital of Manama early on Sunday, two AFP journalists said.
Bahrain said it had intercepted 125 missiles and 203 drones since the start of Iran’s attacks, which have killed two people in the kingdom and 24 others in neighbouring Gulf nations.
AFP
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