Israeli air strikes have rained down on three neighbourhoods in Beirut while Israeli army says it launched new attacks on the Iranian capital Tehran. Missile and drone attacks continue to target the Gulf region and beyond, with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait reporting interceptions.
Trump seeks to delay meeting with China’s Xi by ‘month or so’ amid Iran war. The US president delays March 31–April 2 trip to China to focus on the escalating war against Iran. It underscores how the Iran war has upended his foreign policy agenda, also risks magnifying tensions between Washington and Beijing, as the war on Iran has joined trade and Taiwan as among the spectrum of issues separating the world’s two biggest economies.
