Wire desks stress the contradiction: Trump says imminent signing, Iran says the text is not finalized — but mediators are now shuttling to close it.

NBC News and AP reported Qatari negotiators flew to Tehran early June 14 to finalize the deal, with both sides saying it could be signed within days. Trump's claim of a Sunday signing directly contradicted Iran's foreign ministry, which said no MoU would be signed Sunday and that demining and a transit system for Hormuz still had to be arranged; Pakistan said mediators had reached a final agreed text.

Pakistani coverage centers Islamabad's mediation and names the accord for Pakistan.

Pakistan Observer reported both sides had agreed the final text of the 'Islamabad Declaration,' crediting Pakistani mediation and saying a signing was likely in Geneva near the G7, while noting Tehran's denial that it would be signed Sunday and pointing to a possible electronic signing in the days after.

Trump frames the accord as a personal diplomatic triumph ending the war and reopening Hormuz.

NPR and the Washington Times carried Trump's claim that the signing was set for Sunday in Geneva and that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen the moment the deal is signed, with demining to be discussed with allies at the G7. Iran disputed the timing, but Trump insisted the war was effectively settled.

Agenda-setting coverage: Iran and Ukraine dominate, with Trump's bilateral blitz and a Versailles dinner.

AP reporting detailed the Evian summit, the Versailles dinner with Macron and Trump's one-on-ones with Egypt, Qatar and the UAE on the Iran war and Hormuz demining, alongside a Ukraine session where allies press for tougher Russia measures. Courthouse News framed the summit as G7 allies trying to bridge divides with Trump.

Iran and Ukraine loom over the summit as France hopes Trump stays for the full duration.

The Times of Israel reported that the Iran war and Ukraine overshadow the G7, with France anxious that Trump remain for the whole summit and Macron seeking to 'restore the rapprochement of positions' among G7 states on aid to Kyiv, peace talks and security guarantees.

Mediators report progress on thorny issues even as Israeli strikes keep killing Palestinians.

Al Jazeera reported the Cairo talks with Egypt, Qatar and Turkey reaching initial understandings on disputed points of the second phase, while Israeli attacks near Khan Younis, Gaza City and Deir el-Balah continued and Hamas insisted that ending the strikes was essential for any progress.

Hamas frames the line-shifting as a deliberate Israeli effort to sabotage a fragile US-brokered ceasefire.

The Express Tribune reported Hamas accusing Israel of moving the 'yellow line' westward by about 300 metres in several areas and seizing more land to 'blow up the negotiation track' as talks in Cairo with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators sought to advance the next phase of the ceasefire.

The ceasefire exists on paper but is breached repeatedly along the Lebanon front, now with strikes on Beirut.

NBC News reported Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs on June 14, killing three and wounding others, after the Israeli military said Hezbollah fired three projectiles toward northern Israel. The exchanges follow a conditional June 4 ceasefire that Hezbollah rejected and earlier strikes on the Dahiyeh.

Israeli officials frame the strikes as retaliation for Hezbollah rocket fire that violates the truce.

Times of Israel's live coverage relayed the Israeli military's account that it struck a Hezbollah command center in Beirut after three drones or projectiles hit northern Israel, arguing the group's refusal to accept the ceasefire terms and its continued fire left it exposed.

Analysts read the operation as another incremental grey-zone step to normalize Chinese coast-guard presence east of Taiwan.

An American Enterprise Institute China-Taiwan brief described Beijing's maritime law-enforcement operation east of Taiwan as part of a pattern of normalizing patrols around the island, set against KMT chair Cheng Li-wun's US visit and the run-up to November local elections.

Beijing frames its activity around Taiwan as lawful exercise of sovereignty and rejects outside interference.

At the Chinese foreign ministry's June 12 press conference, spokesperson Lin Jian reiterated that Taiwan is part of China and that Beijing's actions are an internal matter, rejecting US and Taiwanese characterizations of the patrols as coercive.

A fragile US-brokered ceasefire holds on paper while strikes and stalled withdrawal talks continue.

AP (via the Philadelphia Inquirer) reported the toll topping 73,000 with Israeli strikes continuing despite the ceasefire and no agreement yet on the next phase of withdrawal.

Israel's continued strikes and 'yellow line' creep are eroding a paper ceasefire and threatening the Cairo talks.

The Express Tribune reported Hamas accusing Israel of moving the yellow line westward to derail negotiations as the death toll climbed past 73,000, framing the strikes as undermining the US-brokered truce.

A G7 dominated by the Iran war's aftermath, with Europe seeking to shape implementation amid friction with Washington.

NPR and Euronews report the summit convening just after the Iran announcement, with items spanning Hormuz demining, Lebanon, Ukraine air defense, tariffs and critical minerals; Zelensky attends a dedicated Ukraine session without a Trump bilateral.

France welcomes the deal and centers the summit on implementation, Hormuz, Lebanon and a final nuclear accord.

Host Macron welcomed the US-Iran agreement and called for rapid, complete implementation by all belligerents, naming Hormuz's lasting reopening and support for Lebanon as summit aims.