Iran’s military chief warns Gulf states that facilitating US operations against Tehran would be treated as participation in the conflict, while an Iranian lawmaker says Tehran would retaliate in kind in the event of a nuclear strike.

US president previously said he would declare a strategic waterway US territory after Iran is ‘defeated’.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says Tehran will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until Washington lifts sanctions and blockade measures, releases frozen assets and ends military operations.

Finance Minister Henry Musasizi told lawmakers the road was expected to improve connectivity in the Busoga sub-region.

Ecuador’s intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife, Stephany Hollihan Vasconez, are among seven people who died in a helicopter crash in Kenya on Wednesday, the Ecuadorian government announced.

Zambian opposition leader Brian Mundubile said on Wednesday that he would challenge this week’s presidential election result in court, alleging vote irregularities.