Top updates: Iran not planning to participate in second round of talks with US

Iran has no plans to participate in the second round of negotiations with the United States in Pakistan, state broadcaster IRIB said on Monday.

This came after United States President Donald Trump said on Sunday that a US delegation will arrive in Pakistani capital Islamabad on Monday for talks with Iran.

The two-week ceasefire in West Asia, which took effect on April 8, will end on Wednesday.

Here are more top updates from the war in West Asia:

• US fires at, captures Iranian ship: Trump said on Sunday that the United States Navy had fired at and captured a sanctioned Iranian cargo vessel after it attempted to breach the naval blockade imposed by the US.
• The military said that the ship, Touska, had tried to sail toward Iranian port Bandar Abbas. However, guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the vessel as it transited in the northern Arabian Sea. It added that the US military had issued multiple warnings to the Iranian ship, but the crew “failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period”. The military then struck Touska’s engine room. US soldiers boarded the vessel to take control of it.

U.S. forces operating in the Arabian Sea enforced naval blockade measures against an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel attempting to sail toward an Iranian port, April 19.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance...

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