Swedish Prime Minister: Hungary’s veto power still exists, and of course we are very dissatisfied with it.

According to Al Jazeera: The French Foreign Minister will visit Israel on Friday to try to promote a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel.

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs: U.S. citizens are advised to depart the country by commercial flight from Oman International Airport.

[Netanyahu: Israel will "suspend" air strikes on Iranian energy facilities] When answering media questions at a press conference on the 19th, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that it was Israel that "solely" air struck Iran's natural gas fields and that Israel would "comply" with U.S. President Trump's request to "pause" subsequent air strikes on energy facilities. Earlier in the day, Trump said in response to media questions at the White House that he had told Netanyahu not to attack energy facilities in Iran.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Schumer: As we have been doing all week, Democrats will continue to occupy the floor to block the SAVE Act, which the Republicans claim suppresses voter rights. No matter how long it takes, we will not under any circumstances allow this bill to pass.

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: The United States and Japan released a critical minerals cooperation action plan. The United States and Japan will focus the first round of minimum price negotiations on some critical minerals; they will negotiate on trade measures that can support parties to multilateral agreements in building resilient markets for critical minerals; and they will jointly determine the mining, processing and manufacturing projects of specific strategically important critical minerals in the United States, Japan and other countries.