The pontiff has repeatedly called for a halt in hostilities. In his Easter homily, he singled out those who wage war, abuse the weak and prioritize profits.

Israel attacked a key petrochemical plant at Iran’s massive South Pars natural gas field and killed a top Revolutionary Guard commander.

The U.S. and Iran on Monday were weighing the framework of a plan to end their five‑week-old conflict, even as Tehran pushed back against pressure to swiftly reopen the Strait of Hormuz on the eve of a new ultimatum set by Trump.

The British government is under growing pressure to bar Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, from entering the country.

He will remain in custody overnight and make his first court appearance on Wednesday, a police statement said.

Iraq's powerful Kataib Hezbollah freed Shelly Kittleson after she was abducted a week earlier, with the condition she "leave the country immediately."

U.S. strikes on Iran's Kharg Island do not represent a change in American strategy, JD Vance said.

AP journalists saw charred bodies in vehicles and on the ground at one of Beirut’s busiest intersections in the central Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood, a mixed commercial and residential area.

Investors placed an approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the U.S. and Iran announced a ceasefire, the latest large wager on the direction of the world's most traded commodity.

That's nearly triple the death count in the previous three years.

The warning from Iran's lead negotiator laid bare the continued volatility in the region following Tuesday's ceasefire announcement by President Donald Trump.

Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed at least 203 people and wounded more than 1,000, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

Even as the U.S. and Iran seek to cement a ceasefire, Israel is seizing more territory from its neighbors in preparation for a long, drawn-out conflict across the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu's long-running corruption trial will resume on Sunday, the courts' spokesperson said on Thursday, hours after Israel lifted a state of emergency imposed over its war with Iran.

The first planned U.S.-Iranian peace talks are set to begin in the Pakistani capital Islamabad from Saturday.