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Donald Trump claimed that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire that will be implemented over the coming hours.

He said he hoped the pause in fighting would lead to an end of what he called the 12-day war.

The president's announcement followed an Iranian strike against America's largest air base in the Middle East, in Qatar, which caused no casualties.

Earlier, Mr. Trump said that Iran had given America advance notice of its missile attack.

Iran noted that it had retaliated using the same number of bombs that America dropped over the weekend.

Brent Crude fell by nearly 9% after the attack, which did not disrupt oil supplies to just over

$70 a barrel. Earlier Israel ramped up attacks on Tehran, targeting sites symbolically linked with the Iranian

regime. Rockets hit the entrance to the notorious Evan Prison, the state's jail for political

prisoners, and the headquarters of its ideological paramilitaries known as the Basij. The strikes were the

biggest yet, according to Israel's army, and marked a further broadening of targets beyond Iran's nuclear program.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin hosted Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arachi, for talks in Moscow.

Mr. Putin condemned America's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities as absolutely unprovoked aggression.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hamenei, reportedly sent his envoy to seek greater

Russian support. Mr. Putin also discussed the regional havoc with Iraq's Prime Minister

Muhammad al-Sadani, on the phone.

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