The US and Iranian delegations have left Islamabad to return home, Pakistani sources told Reuters.

An elated Nasa late Friday was celebrating its successful voyage around the Moon, after four astronauts safely returned to Earth having completed the first lunar flyby in more than 50 years.

Gaza’s civil defence agency yesterday reported that Israeli airstrikes in the Palestinian territory had killed seven people overnight, with the military saying it had struck an “armed terrorist cell”.

The face-to-face talks between the American and Iranian delegations in Pakistan continued till early today, the most significant engagement since the 1979 Islamic revolution, to end a war that plunged the Middle East into violence and rocked the world economy.

Three supertankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, shipping data showed, marking what appeared to be the first vessels to exit the Gulf since the US-Iran ceasefire deal.

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday revealed renderings for a colossal triumphal arch proposed for construction in Washington near some of the nation’s most revered monuments.

Libya’s rival eastern and western legislative bodies have signed a US-mediated agreement to unify public spending across the divided country for the first time in over a decade, the central bank said yesterday.

Two rounds of talks were held between Iranian and US officials in Pakistan

Iran’s imposition of a toll for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz looks set to be a key point of contention at talks opening in Pakistan.

At least a dozen US military sites across the Gulf region have been so badly damaged by Iran’s retaliation to US and Israeli attacks that their presence now creates significantly more vulnerabilities than it does benefits, a slate of Middle East experts argued on Thursday.

Israel has approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports and the watchdog Peace Now, which said the decision was taken “secretly” in early April.

Two rounds of talks have taken place between Iranian and US officials in Pakistan

Calls for Hormuz reopening and lasting regional security deal

White House says Vice President JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner join direct discussions

Each vessel is capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil

The US Navy guided-missile destroyers passed through the strait with no issues reported, The Wall Street Journal reported

Journalists describe tightly controlled access as US-Iran negotiations unfold behind closed doors

Claim comes as shipping fears disrupt oil flows and US-Iran talks begin in Pakistan

Statement highlights civilian deaths, displacement and damage to critical infrastructure

The face-to-face negotiations are the highest-level US-Iran talks since the Islamic Revolution of 1979