{"id":632942,"date":"2026-04-26T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:28:12","slug":"cole-tomas-allen-identified-as-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooter-islamabad-peace-talks-collapse-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-strained-after-strikes-on-hezbollah-targets-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632942\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Tomas Allen identified as White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooter; Islamabad peace talks collapse; Israel-Lebanon ceasefire strained after strikes on Hezbollah targets in south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after US President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by his top envoys and the Islamic Republic said it won\u2019t negotiate so long as it\u2019s being threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Saturday told Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to skip the trip to Pakistan, which is mediating talks, and later told reporters that Iran \u201coffered a lot, but not enough.\u201d Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his nation won\u2019t enter \u201cimposed negotiations under threats or blockade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a ceasefire has mostly held since early April, both countries are maintaining a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, making the key energy chokepoint virtually impassable. The disruption to about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil flows has been dubbed the biggest supply shock in history by the International Energy Agency, and the conflict has prompted cuts to global economic growth forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo much time wasted on traveling,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after US President Donald Trump cancelled a planned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-632942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632942","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=632942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}