Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has praised U.S. President Donald Trump's extraordinary efforts to establish peace in the Middle East following high-level phone calls with regional leaders.
In a historic shift, Iran has agreed in principle to surrender its highly enriched uranium stockpile as part of a proposed agreement with the U.S. aimed at ending the regional conflict.
India is moving to increase crude oil imports from the U.S. and Russia amid severe supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in New Delhi.
The WHO has deployed 11.5 tonnes of medical supplies and 35 experts to the DRC to contain a new Ebola outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain, warning of severe risks due to a lack of vaccines.