US President Donald Trump brushed aside concerns about surging fuel prices yesterday and threatened to destroy Iran’s oil wells, power plants and main export terminal if Tehran does not quickly accept a peace deal.

The American University of Armenia said yesterday it was moving all classes online over Iranian threats to target US universities in West Asia.

Some of Ukraine’s allies have sent Kyiv “signals” about the possibility of scaling back its long-range strikes on Russia’s oil sector amid a spike in global energy prices, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday.

US Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican, has said Congress should have a say in any decisions to deploy troops to Iran, further underscoring division within President Trump’s political party.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said yesterday.

Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s military chief who led a coup in 2021, stepped down yesterday to stand as president in a parliamentary vote following the first polls in the Southeast Asian nation since the takeover that triggered a civil war.

When Iran’s covert nuclear programme came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop weapons.

An Israeli air strike killed at least three people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, local health officials said, in the latest round of violence since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect more than five months ago.

A statement carried by the Guards' Sepah News website said Tangsiri "succumbed to severe injuries" from the attack

The vehicle and the merchandise remain unaccounted for. Nestle did not reveal where exactly the truck was lost

"I think we'll make a deal with them, I'm pretty sure, but it's possible we won't," Trump told reporters on Sunday evening as he traveled aboard Air Force One to Washington.

After five years of hardline rule, he oversaw heavily restricted elections that criminalised protest or criticism of the vote and returned a walkover win for pro-military parties in late January

Pakistan said on Sunday it was preparing to host "meaningful talks" to end the conflict over Iran in coming days

Iran launched strikes on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile after Iranian electrical facilities came under attack, cutting power to parts of Tehran and surrounding areas

Australia charges a sales tax of 52 cents on each litre of petrol sold at the pump, which will be halved for three months

IAEA said that Iran's heavy water production plant in Khondab was no longer operational after an Israeli military strike

US President Donald Trump said he wanted to “take the oil” in Iran, possibly seizing the export hub of Kharg Island, the Financial Times reported

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday that he could take Iran's Kharg Island "very easily."

Two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid from Mexico arrived safely in Havana on Saturday, the Mexican Navy said, concluding a journey in which the vessels were delayed by bad weather and briefly reported missing.

Demonstrators decrying US President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation efforts, war in Iran and other policies took to the city streets on Saturday across the country in the third round of the “No Kings” rallies.