MOSCOW, April 8 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday welcomed a two-week ceasefire agreed between the United States and Iran, and said Russia hopes that the U.S. will now have the time and scope to resume three-way peace talks on Ukraine.

Tensions remain high as the US pushes fresh Iran talks while Israel and Lebanon open rare direct dialogue amid ongoing strikes. Disputes over Iran’s nuclear programme, uncertainty around the Hormuz blockade,

Iran-US war latest: Sanctioned China-linked tanker sails straight through Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade - The Rich Starry vessel appears to be the first to make it through the chokepoint since the

President Donald Trump said the US Navy will start preventing ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, after US-Iran peace talks ended without agreement.

Over a month since the war between the US-Israel and Iran began, with an attack on Tehran on February 28, Israel has revealed what the war has cost the country.According to a preliminary estimate, Israel's Finance Ministry said that the war

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticised Russia for answering his offer of an Easter truce with airstrikes on Wednesday but he praised as "positive" fresh

Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have said their countries will hold a 32-hour ceasefire over the Orthodox Easter weekend.

Trump said U.S.-Iran talks may resume this week. U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz confronted six vessels. The International Monetary Fund said the war with Iran is taking a toll on the global economy.