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Canada and the United Kingdom are among 10 countries which issued a joint statement calling for “an urgent end to hostilities in Lebanon.”

The nations are also “deeply concerned by the worsening humanitarian situation and displacement crisis” in the Middle Eastern country.

In addition to Cananda and the UK, the statement was signed by Australia, ‌Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Sierra Leone and Switzerland. 

Their statement also condemned the killing of three UN peacekeepers in Lebanon in March. 

The UN released preliminary findings last week into the deaths of the three Indonesian peacekeepers. They found the two attacks were likely from an Israeli tank projectile as well as from an ⁠improvised explosive device most likely placed by Hezbollah.

US Vice President JD Vance has said that mistrust between Iran and the United States can’t be resolved overnight. 

But Iranian negotiators wanted to make a deal, he said on Tuesday evening.

Earlier on Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested talks between Iran and the US could resume within the next two days. 

Vance led the US delegation in the first round of talks last weekend in Pakistan. The talks ended in apparent failure after less than a day.

On Tuesday, however, Vance said he felt “very good about where we are.”

“There is a lot of, of course, mistrust between Iran and the United States of America. You are not going to solve that problem ⁠overnight,” Vance said. 

Vance also said that Trump didn’t want to make “a small deal,” but a “grand bargain.”

According to Vance, Trump was telling Iran: “If you guys commit to not having a nuclear weapon, we are going to make Iran thrive.”

The deal would make Iran “prosper and join the world economy,” the US vice president said.

An Iranian student convicted in France has arrived in Iran after being released from French prison.

Mahdieh Esfandiari was sentenced to four years in prison in February 2026 for glorifying terrorism in anti-Israel social media posts.

Esfandiari was released from French custory after Tehran allowed two French nationals to leave ‌Iran last week. The two were facing charges of spying for France and Israel. Paris has dismissed the charges as baseless.

Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris had been held in Iran since May 2022.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that it’s “highly probable” that talks between Iran and the United States will restart. 

Guterres said that he met with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Tuesday, without giving further details.

Pakistan hosted unsuccessful US-Iran negotiations at the weekend. In the following days, Pakistani leaders said they were not giving up efforts to help end the conflict. 

Speaking to reporters at the UN in New York on Tuesday evening, Guterres stressed that there was “no military solution” to the conflict and that “serious negotiations must resume.”

Welcome to our coverage of the Iran war

You join our reporting on the Iran war as President Trump suggests a second round of negotiations between Iran and the United States could take place in Pakistan “over the next two days.”

Lebanon and Israel have also agreed to direct negotiations after the country’s two ambassadors to the US met on Tuesday for talks mediated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 

This was the first direct diplomatic contact between the countries in more than three decades. 

The US military said that no ships passed through its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours. However, an analysis of ship-tracking data by BBC Verify showed that at least seven ships crossed the strait since the blockade began. Four of these vessels were linked to Iran, while three weren’t, BBC said. 

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