The White House has confirmed the US has agreed to suspend all bombing and military attacks on Iran for two weeks.
Palestinians in Gaza were seen standing in line for hours in the rain for bread, as food shortages deepen.
Pope Leo condemned Trump’s threats that Iran’s “civilisation will die”, calling the remarks “unacceptable”.
Video showed orange flames and thick black smoke pouring from “black oil” storage tanks in Nahrawan near Baghdad, Iraq.
Iranians formed human chains across bridges and in front of power plants across the country.
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A two-storey historical building in eastern Ukraine engulfed in flames after a Russian drone hit its infrastructure.
Gunmen opened fire near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, triggering a gun battle with Turkish police.
A synagogue in Tehran was struck in a wave of US-Israeli attacks overnight.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is intensifying strikes on Iran.
A suspected Iranian missile attack sparked a huge fire near an industrial complex in Saudi Arabia.
Donald Trump warned that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz.
