An India-flagged LPG carrier has become the first Indian vessel to cross the Strait of Hormuz since a temporary US-Iran ceasefire, with its Mumbai arrival expected on April 15.
South Korea approved a supplementary budget worth about ₩26.2 trillion, including cash aid for 35.8 million people and energy support measures aimed at softening the spillover from the Middle East conflict.
Saudi Arabia’s East-West Crude Oil Pipeline has been hit by an attack that cut throughput by 700,000 barrels a day, intensifying concern over regional supply disruptions.
Al Jazeera says its Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Wishah was killed in a strike on a vehicle in west Gaza City, with Gaza’s civil defence also reporting one other fatality.
Oil prices fell below $95 a barrel and global stocks rallied after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, though the truce remained fragile.
Lebanon's National News Agency said an Israeli drone strike on Deir al-Zahrani in the Nabatieh region killed one person during a day of heavy attacks in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon's National News Agency said an Israeli strike in Zebdine killed one person, amid a wider day of attacks and an expanded Israeli ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
The upper house has approved Japan’s biggest budget in history, locking in higher spending on social security, education and defense despite worries over debt and the yen.
On the event date, the White House moved from an ultimatum to a pause in hostilities, with the ceasefire tied to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and talks scheduled to continue in Pakistan.
Lebanese authorities say Israeli air raids have displaced about 1.2 million people, killed more than 1,450 and wounded more than 4,400 amid an expanding war.
AirAsia says it still plans to launch its Bahrain hub in June, even as the Middle East conflict disrupts air corridors and forces airlines to rethink their networks.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said three people, including two women, were killed and three others injured when an apartment building was struck in the predominantly Christian town.
The Israeli military says its air force killed Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, whom it identified as the head of commerce at the IRGC’s oil headquarters, in an airstrike in Tehran.