live U.S. starts Iranian port blockade amid ceasefire tensions and Iran warning – Monday 13 April
Donald Trump has warned that any Iranian ships approaching a declared U.S. blockade zone in the Strait of Hormuz will be “immediately elimina...
Thousands of civilians fled their homes as Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces push through Darfur and Kordofan. Airstrikes and attacks on markets, schools, and camps have left many at risk.
The RSF captured Darfur’s city of al-Fashir in late October 2025, marking one of its biggest gains in the 2½-year war with Sudan’s army. Since then, they have advanced east into the Kordofan region and taken control of Sudan’s largest oil field, Heglig.
Most of the roughly 40,000 people displaced so far have stayed within Sudan, but the UN warns the violence could force even more to leave.
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said if a city like El Obeid, near Khartoum, “were to be… engulfed by the war, I am pretty sure we would see more exodus,” noting that big urban centers produce most of the displaced.
Conditions at camps remain dire, with many facing violence and loss.
Grandi described one smaller camp hosting people from Al-Fashir, Kordofan, and other areas, saying, “their stories are unfortunately all the same: rape, murder, forced recruitment of children, separation of families, and sheer robbery.”
The Sudanese air force has also struck residential neighborhoods, markets, schools, and camps for displaced people.
Research by Sudan Witness shows at least 1,700 civilians have been killed in airstrikes since April 2023, with repeated attacks on neighborhoods and essential facilities.
Humanitarian groups are struggling to respond as violence spreads, leaving millions at risk and raising fears of a worsening crisis across Sudan and neighboring countries.
Hungarians vote in elections on Sunday that could see the end of hard right nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s more than 15 year rule. Opinion polls show Orbán’s Fidesz party trailing 45-year-old Péter Magyar’s centre-right opposition Tisza party.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators held their highest-level talks in half a century in Pakistan on Saturday in an effort to end their six-week war, as President Donald Trump said the U.S. military had begun the process of clearing the Strait of Hormuz.
At least 30 people were killed on Saturday in a stampede at Haiti’s Laferrière Citadel World Heritage Site, with authorities warning that the death toll could rise.
Israel has reprimanded Spain’s most senior diplomat in Tel Aviv after a giant effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was blown up in a Spanish town.
Nine suspects were arrested on Saturday (11 April) in connection with a terror attack targeting a police post in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district.
A U.S. federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, marking a setback in his ongoing legal battles with major media organisations he accuses of publishing misleading coverage.
Hungary’s election winner Péter Magyar has said he does not support Ukraine’s fast-track entry to the European Union and will uphold an opt-out allowing Hungary to avoid contributing to a €90 billion EU loan for Kyiv.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is on a five-day visit to China, his fourth trip in four years, highlighting Spain’s push to strengthen economic and strategic relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
Hungary’s political landscape is entering a new phase after voters brought an end to the long rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, with analysts pointing to economic discontent and governing fatigue rather than a decisive ideological break.
Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day as the country’s worsening hunger crisis pushes communities closer to famine, humanitarian organisations have warned.
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