Drastic restrictions on cross-country travel took effect yesterday in cash-strapped Cuba, with spaces on ever scarcer trains and buses now reserved for the sick, people traveling for funerals and other emergencies.

US media outlets have reacted with near unanimity in condemning President Donald Trump’s concessions to Iran in a new deal aimed at ending the Middle East war. Signed at a candlelit dinner outside Paris, the memorandum of understanding seeks to halt hostilities and pave the way for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Scores of Ukrainian drones bore down on Moscow yesterday, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week in what Kyiv cast as a demonstration of its growing capabilities that should force Russia to accept a peace deal.

The US yesterday lifted a blockade of Iranian ports imposed during the Middle East war after President Donald Trump and President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a deal to end the conflict on all fronts, as uncertainty surrounded planned talks in Switzerland aiming to take the accord further.

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Russia had received the bodies of 33 of its own soldiers in return

A trio of jets dropped nine bombs around the town of Kyauktaw, a local rescue worker says

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While a breakthrough cannot be ruled out, most analysts are skeptical the two sides can forge a final settlement within the 60-day window laid out in a “memorandum of ​understanding” that President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders approved this week.

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Trump put his signature to the memorandum of understanding during dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles following a G7 summit, a US official told AFP.

Leaders of the G7 have pledged at a summit in France to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and increase pressure on Moscow’s war economy, including by tightening sanctions on the Russian oil and gas sectors.

A $300 billion private investment fund aimed at spurring economic recovery in Iran has been outlined in the US-Iran framework agreement, with more than half of the commitments already secured, according to a source familiar with the deal.

A Ukrainian drone hit a bus carrying a children’s football team from Belarus in Russia’s border Bryansk region, local authorities said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump yesterday defended his interim agreement with Iran, saying it had averted a global economic catastrophe, while warning he could launch fresh attacks if Tehran failed to honour its commitments.

Trump's presence has dominated the summit in the spa town of Evian on Lake Geneva

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