{"id":592136,"date":"2026-04-07T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:30:08","slug":"trump-deadline-looms-on-strait-of-hormuz-deal-kharg-island-struck-by-us-pakistan-ceasefire-proposal-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592136\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump deadline looms on Strait of Hormuz deal; Kharg Island struck by US; Pakistan ceasefire proposal considered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European commissioner for defence and Space and former prime minister of Lithuania, Andrius Kubilius, says Europe remains firmly outside the Middle East conflict \u201cfor the time being\u201d, but would not rule out the possibility of future participation in the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the very beginning, we were not participating in any kind of military activities, and we, for time being, we are not planning to do anything else. We shall see how situation is developing, but for now it\u2019s very difficult to predict,\u201d he told ABC Radio National.<\/p>\n<p>Kubilius would not condemn Trump\u2019s threat that \u201ca whole civilisation will die tonight\u201d, and said European leaders were \u201cbecoming accustomed to unpredictable statements or decisions\u201d from US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not keen to comment on his recent statements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European commissioner for defence and Space and former prime minister of Lithuania, Andrius Kubilius, says Europe remains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-592136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}