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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that both Israel and Iran are looking to "do an immediate ceasefire", and that final negotiations on "peace" are proceeding. 

Iran launched approximately 30 ballistic missiles at Israel since Sunday evening, an Israeli military official said Monday afternoon, in the latest escalation of the conflict between the two countries.

Israel has carried out nearly 3,500 air strikes on Lebanon and hundreds of controlled explosions since the U.S. announced a ceasefire for the country on April 16, Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Monday. 

Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced a new "total ban" on Israeli vessels in the Red Sea, as the conflict between Iran and Israel flared again on Sunday following Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs.

Peru's presidential race is set for another drawn-out count after early results on Sunday showed the race was too close to call.

Israel said on Monday it hit a petrochemical plant in Iran's southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, after U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a ballistic missile attack on northern Israel on Sunday evening, in what it described as a "warning" of a far broader response to come if Israeli and American "aggressions" continue.

The stakes in the confrontation with Iran extend far beyond the Middle East. If Tehran emerges from this crisis looking stronger, the damage will not be confined to Israel or the Gulf. 

Iran’s national soccer team arrived in Tijuana early on Sunday ahead of three World Cup matches in the United States, amid tensions that have turned the world’s biggest sporting event into a soft-power contest between the warring countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a recent interview with NBC News’ "Meet the Press" that he would not unfreeze Iranian assets or lift any sanctions before a peace deal is reached.

The Israeli military has struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, known as Dahiyeh, the first strike on the militant group's stronghold since an April 16 ceasefire was brokered. 

The Pentagon has elevated its counterintelligence threat assessment regarding Israel to its highest possible level, multiple American media outlets reported, a dramatic development that lays bare the deepening tensions between two countries that launched a joint war against Iran just months ago.