U.S. starts Iranian port blockade amid ceasefire tensions and Iran warning – Monday 13 April
U.S. President Donald Trump warned that any Iranian ships approaching ports in the Strait of Hormuz would be "immediately elimi...
Russian overnight drone attacks killed at least three people in Ukraine’s east and south on Monday (9 February), with officials reporting casualties in the Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Prosecutors in the Kharkiv region said a mother and her 10-year-old son were killed when drones struck a residential area in the town of Bohodukhiv.
Six people were injured in the wider regional attack, which authorities noted has become a frequent target in the conflict that began with Russia’s invasion in 2022.
Odesa’s regional governor Oleh Kiper said a massive drone strike on the southern port city killed one person and wounded two.
The head of the Odesa City Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said the attack sparked a fire in a multi-storey residential building and damaged a gas pipeline, with several cars also set ablaze across the city.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said a 35-year-old man was killed and two others, including a 19-year-old woman, were injured.
The strike damaged 21 apartments in a residential building in the city’s Prymorskyi district.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, governor Oleksandr Hanzha said nine people, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured after a drone hit a three-storey building, causing a fire that destroyed the roof.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump warned that any Iranian ships approaching ports in the Strait of Hormuz would be "immediately eliminated" on Monday, as the U.S. started its blockade.
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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