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Strikes on Lebanon have abated as a ceasefire is declared amid negotiations of peace across the wider Middle East region.

THE ECONOMIST: G7 leaders are hopeful Iran breakthrough will revive US support for Ukraine.

The warnings come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ‘If Ukraine is going to burn, your Moscow will burn too’ earlier this week.

US Vice President JD Vance has announced the official start of the next phase of negotiations with Iran following the conclusion of a framework agreement.

What happens when a peace deal is all carrot and no stick?

The United States will review force levels and is immediately cutting the number of assets it would activate for the continent in a crisis.

Ukraine has hit a Moscow oil refinery for a second time in days and disrupted flights in one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia's capital in 2026.

Images have emerged of a stony-faced Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signing a physical copy of the Memorandum of Understanding in Tehran.

Military hawks within the Republican Party are directing their ire over the still-unclear Iran deal toward the Vice President, more so than Donald Trump.

The US President warned Wednesday’s G7 summit that if he doesn’t like the ceasefire deal with Tehran, America would go back to ‘dropping bombs on their head’.

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles has backed a leading US Admiral’s grim assessment of China’s growing threat to the Indo-Pacific.

Europe’s alliance with the United States may still be on the rocks, but on the first full day of a Group of 7 summit, the leaders showed they remained ready to behave politely toward Donald Trump.

Each of the leaders has come to this week’s summit in France bearing their own burdens and pressing their own agendas.

The signing of a deal between the United States and Iran will take place on Friday.

The UK Prime Minister has belatedly embraced a social media ban he said was even better than Australia’s, in what could be one of the final acts of his dying premiership.