APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says administration is weighing a currency swap with UAE to help bolster finances of Mideast ally rattled by war.
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APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — US forces board an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia, Defense Department says.
APNewsAlert: ISLAMABAD (AP) — 2 regional officials tell the AP that US and #Iran signal they’ll attend a new round of ceasefire talks in Islamabad.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Iran state TV says 'no delegation from Iran has visited Islamabad ... so far' as speculation about US talks grows.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Head of #Iran’s forensic medicine organization says war’s death toll is now at least 3,375 people.
APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says US negotiators will be in Pakistan on Monday for talks with #Iran.
APNewsAlert: CAIRO (AP) — Iranian gunboats have fired on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, British military says.
APNewsAlert: ISLAMABAD (AP) — US Vice President JD Vance arrives in Islamabad for high-stakes ceasefire talks with #Iran.
APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Vance warns Tehran not to 'play' the US as he departs for Islamabad for negotiations aimed at ending the war with #Iran.
APNewsAlert: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones during #Iran war.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says #Iran and its proxies attacked it on Thursday; Saudi Arabia says its East-West pipeline recently damaged.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Iran warns continued Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon will bring 'explicit costs and STRONG responses.'
APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — #Iran nuclear agency chief says protecting Tehran’s right to enrich uranium is ‘necessary’ for US talks.
A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian news agencies publish chart suggesting Revolutionary Guard put sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz during the war.
Here's where things stand after a tentative, 2-week #Iran ceasefire took effect apnews.com/article/iran...
APNewsAlert: BEIRUT (AP) — Multiple Israeli airstrikes hit central Beirut hours after US and Iran announce ceasefire.
APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says US will work with #Iran to 'dig up' enriched uranium buried under strikes last summer; Iran does not confirm.
APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television says oil refinery on #Iran's Lavan Island came under attack hours after ceasefire announced.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says its air defenses are firing at an incoming Iranian missile barrage.
APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military says it 'continues fighting and ground operations' in its war against the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain sounds its missile alert alarm hours after U.S. and Iran said they agreed on a 2-week ceasefire in the war.
APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Netanyahu says Israel backs U.S. ceasefire with Iran but that deal doesn't cover fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Pro-government demonstrators in #Iran's capital scream: 'Death to America, death to Israel, death to compromisers!'
APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — #Iran includes 'acceptance of enrichment' in Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.
APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military official says the country is still attacking #Iran, after White House said Israel agreed to ceasefire.
APNewsAlert: BAGHDAD (AP) — US confirms release of journalist kidnapped by Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Iraq.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi officials say its Habshan gas-processing facility is ablaze after earlier reporting incoming Iranian fire.
APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel has agreed to the terms of the two-week US-Iran ceasefire agreement, White House official says.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Missile alerts sound in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait despite US and #Iran saying they reached a 2-week ceasefire.