Friday

Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates report that they have intercepted missile and drone attacks from Iran. (AA)

One man is killed and several are injured by Iranian ballistic missile attacks on central and southern Israel. (The Jerusalem Post)

An Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia injures 10 American soldiers. (CBS News)

Iranian ambassador to the United Nations Ali Bahreini says that Iran will facilitate and expedite humanitarian aid to cross the Strait of Hormuz. (AP)

The foreign ministers of the G7 nations reach an agreement to protect passage through the Strait of Hormuz if the war ends. (Euronews)

Brent crude oil surpasses US$110 per barrel after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy turned away three container ships and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. (AFP via South China Morning Post) (UPI)

Following his Rastriya Swatantra Party's landslide victory in the general election, Balendra Shah is sworn as Prime Minister of Nepal, succeeding interim prime minister Sushila Karki. (Reuters)

Russia designates filmmaker and teacher Pavel Talankin, the co-director and subject of the 2025 documentary film Mr Nobody Against Putin, as a foreign agent after authorities accuse him of spreading disinformation about the government and opposing the war in Ukraine. (AFP via RFI)

Lawmakers from the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference protest outside the legislative assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, India, in solidarity with Iran and against the assassination of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei amidst the Iran war. Additionally, a major confrontation breaks out between INC lawmaker Irfan Hafiz Lone and BJP lawmaker Yudhvir Sethi during the protest. (Kashmir Convener) (Times of India)