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President Donald Trump said Monday he plans to hold off on new strikes on Iran for the time being, after appeals from regional countries including Qatar, whose prime minister met him at the White House. He said the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz would stay for now.

The appeals list is Trump's account. Qatar's prime minister posted about "reaching a deal," not strikes. Erdogan separately says he told Trump Ankara didn't want escalation. The rest haven't spoken to it in this report.

Every country he named has a Gulf coast, and the Gulf's only opening to the ocean is Hormuz. Qeshm, which Iranian state media says the U.S. struck overnight, is Iran's largest island and sits inside that strait.

US-led talks between Ukraine and Russia opened in Abu Dhabi. Washington called for a "new" security framework. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was "happy" with the changes in approach by US mediators. Negotiations are set to continue Wednesday.

Abu Dhabi is the UAE's capital, on the Gulf coast, thousands of km from the front lines. The UAE has kept ties with Moscow, Kyiv and Washington and has helped broker earlier prisoner swaps, so all three can sit down there.

The upbeat read is Zelensky's own, and it's about the US mediators' approach, not any agreed terms. This report gives no detail on Washington's "new" framework and no Russian account. A readout from Moscow would add weight.