Headlines- According to US President Donald Trump, talks with Iran may occur this next weekend.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards claim that in response to US strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, they opened fire on US military installations.
- In order "to safeguard national security," Bahrain's Ministry of Interior declared that it has arrested fifteen people who were allegedly linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- Kuwait said on Wednesday that one person was killed and numerous others were injured in an Iranian missile and drone strike on its international airport.
- During a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, stated that the Ebola virus in central Africa has had a "big head-start" and warned that health officials were still lagging behind.
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