🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Pakistan has proposed operating joint patrols in the Strait of Hormuz, a diplomatic source tells Al Jazeera.

🇮🇪⚡️- For the past five days, large protests have swept across Ireland due to soaring oil prices and the cost of living, which have culminated in a general protest against the state.

Farmers have begun joining the protests, i.e., using tractors to block Ireland’s only fuel refinery. In addition, other protesters shut down the road leading to the Rosslare Europort in Wexford, eastern Ireland, effectively laying siege to a major entry into the country.

Notably, many of the endorsements of the protests come from right-wing, anti-immigrant individuals. They've highlighted the misuse of federal funds for expenditures such as gender research, overseas, and benefits for migrants. One individual to note, legendary UFC fighter Conor McGregor, has enthusiastically endorsed the protests and has utilized his various businesses to support the protesters.

The protester representatives stated they wish to repeal the carbon tax and place caps on other oil prices.

🇮🇪⚡- Footage displaying riot police dispatching to shut down protests in Galway, western Ireland.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Senior members of the IRGC have arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, for consultations with the Iranian delegation, according to CNN.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance will make a statement to the press momentarily.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- BREAKING: "We have not reached an agreement." - JD Vance, Vice President of the United States.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- "This is bad news, more so for Iran than for America. So we go back to the US having not come to an agreement. They have chosen not to accept our terms." - JD Vance, Vice President of the United States.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- The American delegation in Islamabad will return to the United States, and no agreement has been made between the US and Iran.

The war will resume.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Journalist: "Precisely what have they rejected here?"

JD Vance: "The simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon".

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- The American delegation has left Islamabad.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- "It has always seemed unlikely that the US Vice President would be able to reach an agreement with Iran in a single round of negotiations," - The New York Times.

Happy Easter to all the Christians who celebrate according to Julian calendar! ✝️☦️

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- During the Islamabad talks yesterday, Iran's Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf met face-to-face with Vice President JD Vance, and shook hands, the New York Times reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- The Iranian delegation have now been confirmed to have left Islamabad as well.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel will not return to fighting Iran alone," - Israeli Channel 14.

🇭🇺⚡- At just 11am local time, Hungary's 2026 national parliamentary elections turnout has already smashed all previous numbers.

38% of the country has already cast their vote.

🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia's East-West Red Sea pipeline has been restored to almost full capacity.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we can do the same to Israel.

There is no reason why we shouldn't," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡- "Lockheed Martin shuts door on direct India F-35 talks as Washington tightens control over the fifth-generation fighter exports.

The American defense giant has confirmed that any future Indian bid for the F-35 Lightning II can proceed only through strict U.S.-India government channels, exposing the widening gap between Washington’s technology controls and New Delhi’s strategic autonomy ambitions," - Defence Security Asia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir issues orders to the Israeli army to go on high alert and prepare for the possibility of a return to military confrontation with Iran in a short period of time, following the collapse of negotiation talks between the United States and Iran in Pakistan," - Yediot Ahronoth.

🇭🇺 - Hungary's election turn-out reaches an incredible 54% at just 1pm local time.