US and Iranian delegations held their first high-level face-to-face negotiations in 40 years, deadlocking for five hours over the release of frozen assets in Qatar. Meanwhile, shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains at just 10 percent capacity despite US military efforts to clear mines, as Ukrainian forces deploy to the Middle East to provide drone defense expertise.

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