Spain's interim lower house of parliament on Thursday ratified housing measures designed to limit evictions and real estate speculation a day after a general strike and major street protests over the European nation's housing cost crunch.

The duration of the approved measures, however, will likely depend on the outcome of a national election set for later this month.

Leaders from more than 40 European countries are gathering in Dublin on Thursday for a summit focused on the continent's fragile security, amid a new U.S.-backed effort to revive talks on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

The meeting of the European Political Community brings together heads of state and government from the European Union and other European countries including the U.K., as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin about the results of U.S.-mediated negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who is also Trump's son-in-law, attended the two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The talks wrapped up Wednesday with an agreement on a large exchange of prisoners, but no visible breakthrough on ending the nearly five-year hostilities.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said a tanker caught fire early Wednesday after striking a naval mine while traveling along an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway, Iranian state media reported.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, a British military agency that monitors maritime safety, said a tanker was involved in an incident while transiting the strait.

Italian authorities evacuated some 300 schools across Italy on Wednesday after receiving an emailed bomb threat, the latest disruptions affecting European institutions following hoax bomb threats against airlines and broadcasters in recent weeks.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a statement that there was no indication of any "concrete danger" to Italian schools and said the threats appeared aimed at "generating alarm and concern."

Russia and Ukraine have agreed their biggest ever release of prisoners after two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, US envoy Jared Kushner told reporters on Wednesday.

"One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we're going to finalise the numbers tomorrow," he said.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, Kushner said at the end of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, before travelling to Dublin to debrief Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

Kushner said the meeting with Putin would "go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed because we see some openings.

Russia and Ukraine have resumed U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi for a second day, Kyiv's chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Wednesday.

"We are starting the second day of negotiations. First, a trilateral format together with the United States and Russia. After that, we will hold a separate meeting with our European partners. We are working," Umerov said on Telegram.

Iran's foreign ministry on Wednesday designated Argentina's navy and air force as terrorist organizations, following a similar move by Buenos Aires months earlier.

In late March, Argentina designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological arm of the military, as a terror organization, citing the IRGC's support for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Millions of Spain's workers are striking Wednesday to demand that the government remedy the nation's housing crisis less than three weeks before a national election that could catapult the far right to power.

Spain's first general strike in 14 years is expected to cause delays to the widely used public transport system and lead to the slowdown or shuttering of businesses, factories and shops across the eurozone's fourth largest economy.