Watch this space for the day’s key updates on the West Asia crisis.
Tel Aviv and Beirut have extended their ceasefire until next month but Israel and Hezbollah continue to attack each other in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile the Trump administration has not renewed its sanctions waiver on floating Russian oil, imports of which Indian refiners were ramping up as Iran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts India’s energy supplies.
Watch this space for the day’s key updates on the West Asia crisis as it drags on 79 days after the US and Israel launched their war against Iran on February 28.
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