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US Vice President JD Vance waves as he boards Air Force Two, after peace talks with Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 12, 2026. © Jacquelyn Martin, Reuters
US Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that 21 hours of peace talks in Pakistan between the US and Iran had failed to produce an agreement to end the war. Each side blamed the other for the failure of the negotiations. Read our live blog below to follow the day's events as they unfold.
Yesterday's key developments:
• A new round of talks between Iranian and US delegations began in Islamabad, with Pakistani officials acting as mediators.
• Israeli strikes on a village near Sidon in south Lebanon killed eight people and wounded nine others, five of them seriously, the Lebanese health ministry said.
• The US military said that it had started “setting conditions" for clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz, with two US warships passing through the key waterway.
• Lebanese authorities said that Israeli strikes have killed 2,020 people since the start of the war.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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