Archives for April, 2026

FILE PHOTO: Iran's Minister of Science Hossein Simaee Sarraf inspects the damage at the research building of the Shahid Beheshti University, which was damaged by a strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 4, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo

Iranian economic collapse may come too late for Trump

Reuters

Smoke from Israeli shelling on the village of Yohmor, seen from the southern Lebanese area of Marjeyoun

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Agence France-Presse

The remains of the Lebanese village Kfar Kila, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border in northern Israel April 28, 2026. REUTERS/Shir Torem

Israeli military tells residents of eight Lebanese towns outside 'buffer zone' to leave ahead of strikes

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist Ennahda party and speaker of an elected parliament that Tunisian President Kais Saied formally dissolved last year, arrives at a court for questioning in Tunis, Tunisia February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui/File Photo

Tunisia opposition leader Ghannouchi hospitalised after health deteriorates, party says

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of late Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 13, 2024. Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei says new management of Strait of Hormuz 'will bring calm'

Reuters

Japan's PM vows all diplomatic efforts to ensure passage of vessels through Hormuz

Reuters

Boats of a new flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip make a symbolic departure from Barcelona on April 12, 2026

Israel says detained Gaza flotilla activists to be taken to Greece

Agence France-Presse

A bust of Alfred Nobel is placed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, where the laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize is announced, in Oslo, Norway, October 10, 2025. REUTERS/Tom Little

Some 287 nominated for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, Trump likely among them

Reuters

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda gives doorstep comments at the Joint Expeditionary Force JEF Leaders' Summit in Helsinki, Finland March 26, 2026. The topics on the agenda include support from the JEF countries to Ukraine and the overall security situation in Europe. Lehtikuva/Emmi Korhonen via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. FINLAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN FINLAND.

Lithuania should join US coalition in Strait of Hormuz, president says

Reuters

Ali Daneshfar, an operations coordinator with Cyrus the Great, a Toronto-based Iranian group, attends a rally in support of U.S. President Trump's military actions towards Iran, while expressing dissatisfaction with the current ceasefire, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 26, 2026. REUTERS/Wa Lone

Iran's North American diaspora split over next steps after Trump's ceasefire

Reuters

Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, April 29, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer

US seeks international help to reopen Strait of Hormuz as crude prices surge

Reuters

Palestinian bride-to-be Amani Abu Selmi holds damaged wool clothes inside a tent, after they were bitten by rodents, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 26, 2026. REUTERS/Haseeb Alwazeer

Rats infest Gaza's tent camps, biting children and spreading disease

Reuters

Protesters shouted 'Starmer is a coward' and 'show your face!'

Under-fire UK PM heckled after Jewish-targeted stabbings

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: A farmer operates a combine during the start of the wheat harvesting campaign in a field near the town of Starobilsk (Starobelsk) in the Luhansk Region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine, July 9, 2025. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo

Vessel carrying grain Ukraine says was stolen will not unload in Israel, Kyiv says

Reuters

A satellite image of fishing vessels at the entrance, which is blocked by a floating barrier, to the disputed Scarborough Shoal, in the South China Sea, April 11, 2026. Vantor/Handout via REUTERS

China conducts combat readiness patrols in Scarborough Shoal

Reuters

Iran's supreme leader Mojataba Khamenei has not been seen in puclic since being chosen to replace his late father last month, but a statement issued in his name defied Washington's naval blockade of Iran's ports

Iran activates air defences as Trump faces congressional deadline

Agence France-Presse