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World Service,20 Apr 2026,49 mins

Iran says it will retaliate for US seizure of cargo ship

Newsday

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The ship was given "fair warning to stop" in the Gulf of Oman but refused, so the navy "stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room", Trump says. Earlier, President Trump said his representatives would be in Pakistan on Monday for negotiations - a White House official says Vice-President JD Vance will lead the US delegation. However, Iran's state media says Tehran has "no plans for now to participate" in the talks. Early results from parliamentary elections in Bulgaria suggest former president Rumen Radev is poised to win. (Photo: An Iranian woman holds a gun next to a poster of late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Credit: Abedin Taherkenareh/PA/Shutterstock)

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