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Here are the highlights of the last hours:

• Trump promises to destroy Iranian uranium. “We will have it,” assured the American president on Thursday, when asked by the press from the White House about Iran’s stock of highly enriched uranium. “We don’t need it, we don’t want it. We will probably destroy it once we have it, but we are not going to leave it to them.”

• Rubio hopes Pakistani mediation in Iran will lead to progress towards an agreement. The US Secretary of State expressed hope that the expected visit of the Pakistani army chief to Iran would advance diplomatic efforts to end the war, stating that progress had been made. “Let’s hope (…) that this will move things forward,” Mr. Rubio told reporters.

• Oil hopes and falls. Renewed hopes of a conflict resolution have caused oil prices to drop after a volatile session. The price of a barrel of Brent crude from the North Sea fell by 2.32% to $102.58, while its American equivalent, the West Texas Intermediate barrel, lost 1.94% to $96.35.

• Nine injured in a strike on a hospital in southern Lebanon. Nine people were injured in an Israeli strike that damaged a hospital in Tebnine, southern Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Health, as the Israeli army continues its raids despite a fragile truce with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah.

• Rubio criticizes NATO for “refusing to do anything.” The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, criticized NATO countries for their lack of support for US operations in Iran. President Donald Trump “is not asking them to provide troops or send fighter jets, but they refuse to do anything about it,” Mr. Rubio told journalists before departing for Sweden, where he will attend a NATO ministerial meeting on Friday. “This has upset us a lot,” he added.

• Brussels revises down European growth due to the war. The European Commission has significantly revised down its growth forecasts for the eurozone due to the repercussions of the conflict in the Middle East, which is leading to a rise in inflation in the continent. Brussels now predicts only a 0.9% increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 21 countries sharing the single currency this year, down from the 1.2% forecasted in November.