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Pakistan’s efforts to end West Asia war approaching ‘critical’ stage: Iran’s envoy

Islamabad, Apr 7 (PTI) Pakistan-led peace efforts to end the US-Israeli war against Iran were approaching a “critical” stage, Iran’s envoy to Islamabad said on Tuesday. Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam’s comments came amid reports that Pakistan was making hectic efforts to bring the US-Iran conflict to an end by arranging a ceasefire and following it up with detailed talks. Pakistan’s “positive and productive endeavours in Good Will and Good Office to stop the war is approaching a critical, sensitive stage…,” the Iranian diplomat said in a post on X. Pakistan positive and productive endeavours in Good Will and Good Office

Israel refrains from striking Lebanese-Syrian border crossing after mediation efforts, source says

BEIRUT, April 7 (Reuters) – The Israeli military has refrained from striking a key border crossing between Syria and Lebanon after both pressed the U.S. on the ​need to keep it open, a Lebanese source familiar with ‌the matter said on Tuesday. The Israeli military on April 4 issued a warning for the Masnaa crossing, the main border point between Lebanon and Syria, saying it would ​strike it “in the near future” because Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was using ​it to smuggle weapons. The crossing has been used by both Lebanese ⁠and Syrians fleeing the expanding war in Lebanon, where

At least two dead in gunfight outside Israeli consulate in Istanbul

ISTANBUL, April 7 (Reuters) – At least two attackers were killed ​and one was seriously injured in an extended gun ‌battle between police and assailants directly outside the building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on ​Tuesday, according to media reports and ​Reuters video. Reuters video showed police officers pulling ⁠out guns and taking cover as shots rang ​out for at least 10 minutes. One person ​was covered in blood. Other footage obtained by Reuters showed an apparent attacker moving among parked white police and ​security buses and firing over several ​minutes with an automatic rifle and handgun. Two bodies

Current oil and gas crisis worse than 1973, 1979, 2022 together: IEA chief

PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) – The current oil and ‌gas crisis triggered by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is “more serious than the ones in 1973, ​1979 and 2022 together”, Fatih Birol, the ​head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), told ⁠Le Figaro newspaper. “The world has never experienced ​a disruption to energy supply of such magnitude,” ​he said in an interview with the French newspaper released in its Tuesday edition. He said the European countries, as ​well Japan, Australia and others will suffer, ​but the countries most at risk were developing nations ‌which ⁠will suffer from higher

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