These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, at 6pm GMT.

• Iran FM warns any challenge to Hormuz routes will ‘increase tensions’
• Saudi Arabia leads Gulf, Arab condemnation of newest Iranian attacks
• Saudi crown prince, Macron emphasize importance of freedom of navigation during call
• Trump presses Syria to take on Hezbollah, raising alarm in Lebanon and Israel
• Saudi Aramco helicopter crash kills 14

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