Archives for April, 2026

FILE PHOTO: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during an interview with Reuters in Belgrade, Serbia, February 4, 2026. REUTERS/Djordje Kojadinovic/File Photo

Serbia's president tells military to create units armed with attack drones

Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver an address to the nation about the Iran war at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. April 1, 2026. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Trump says he asked China's Xi not to give Iran weapons

Reuters

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of male and female dormitories at Bogazici University, in Istanbul, Turkey, February 13, 2026. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Erdogan says Turkey working to extend Iran ceasefire, continue talks

Reuters

Suppliers and buyers at the opening day of the Canton Fair in Guangzhou told AFP that the Iran war has pummelled orders and led to price hikes

Chinese suppliers, Mideast importers fret about war fallout on trade

Agence France-Presse

Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, walks to an interview outside the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka seeks top counterterrorism job, WaPo reports

Reuters

Men walk past street vendors' stands set up beneath a damaged building in the capital Khartoum on the third anniversary of the start of the war

After three years of war, Sudan confronts devastation as donors gather in Berlin

Agence France-Presse

The military adviser to Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei also warned that Iran would sink American ships in the strait if the United States decides to 'police' the key shipping channel

Trump says Iran agrees to hand over its enriched uranium

Agence France-Presse

The Strait of Hormuz, vital for world energy supplies, has become a key point of the US-Iranian negotiations

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Portuguese Defence Minister, Nuno Melo speaks with Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles during the La Toja Forum on global challenges in Lisbon, Portugal, April 1, 2025. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes/File Photo

Portugal, unlike Spain, rejects separate European army

Reuters

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha speaks during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 6, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Ukraine broaches 'stolen' Russian grain cargo on call with Israel

Reuters

Philippine National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano in Tokyo, Japan, June 15, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Philippines' national security adviser has resigned, official says

Reuters

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walks for a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, April 15, 2026. Iori Sagisawa/Pool via REUTERS

Russia ready to help China with energy ahead of Putin's visit, foreign minister says

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif looks on during a business and investment conference, during his official visit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 6, 2025. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain/Pool/File Photo

Pakistan PM Sharif to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey this week

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: A Sri Lanka Navy vessel approaches an Iranian Navy vessel IRIS Bushehr (422) during a rescue operation, a day after the crew of a distressed Iranian military ship, IRIS Dena, were assisted in waters south of Sri Lanka, off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 5, 2026. Sri Lanka Navy/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Iranian crew members return home from Sri Lanka

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

US shuts down Iran's maritime trade despite optimism for more talks

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Oman’s Musandam province, April 12, 2026. REUTERS/File Photo

Factbox-Oil tankers transiting Strait of Hormuz since start of Iran war

Reuters