Eight children were killed in a shooting spree yesterday in the southern US state of Louisiana, in what police said appears to have been an incident of domestic violence.

Lebanon’s military said yesterday it had reopened a road and bridge damaged by Israeli strikes in the country’s south, as a 10-day truce holds between Hezbollah and Israel.

US President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into the mysterious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen American scientists with access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded nuclear and space secrets.

Premature and mismanaged media announcements by Donald Trump and Tehran have derailed progress toward a peace settlement between Iran and the US.

Suspected extremists ambushed the vehicles of civilians on National Highway 202 in the northeast Indian state of Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Saturday, killing two Tangkhul Naga men, including a retired soldier.

Israel’s military on Saturday said it has established a “Yellow Line” demarcation in southern Lebanon – a boundary it says mirrors a similar separation used in Gaza.

There is currently no decision by Iran to send a negotiating delegation to Pakistan "as long as there is a naval blockade," Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday, citing its reporter.

Iran and the United States, along with Israel, are three days away from the end of a two-week ceasefire

Talks expected to begin tomorrow

British government ministers on Sunday backed embattled premier Keir Starmer as he struggles to shake off a scandal over long-time Jeffrey Epstein associate Peter Mandelson

The United States, where firearms are readily available, has a long history of gun violence that kills thousands of people every year

As mediation efforts continued following high-level talks in Pakistan that failed to reach a deal, Iran said it will not allow the crucial maritime trade chokepoint to re-open until the United States ends a blockade of Iranian ports

Iran has taken a beating militarily, but demonstrated it can exact economic costs that Trump and his aides underestimated, unleashing the worst-ever global energy shock, analysts say.

"If we accepted the ceasefire, it was because they accepted our demands," he said

Two-week ceasefire set to end on Wednesday

Neither side offered any specifics about the ‌state of negotiations

Iran’s military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again yesterday, prompting ships to abandon attempts to transit the waterway and President Donald Trump to warn Tehran against trying to “blackmail” the United States.

Iran warns negotiators will make no compromise, pledges to defend national interests with full strength

Two Indian-flagged vessels reportedly forced back as Tehran reverses reopening pledge

Remarks come after Tehran declares key shipping route closed again