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    US military says it shot down Iranian drones launched toward Strait of Hormuz

    CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisc. — The U.S. military said it shot down four Iranian drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz, Friday, and then struck some of the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response, raising the risk to a shaky ceasefire as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Iran . “The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said on social media. The military is enforcing a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s chokehold on the crucial corridor for global oil and natural gas shipments, which has sent energy prices spiking and posed political problems for President Donald Trump's Republican Party ahead of the midterm congressional elections. U.S. Central Command said it hit the radar sites, including an island in the strait, “to defend against further attacks.” It was the latest in back-and-forth attacks that have strained the tenuous ceasefire in the war and efforts to reach a deal to extend that truce. Earlier this week, Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger termin

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    US military says it shot down Iranian drones launched toward Strait of Hormuz
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    Iran FM urges Lebanon president to save country from 'real foe'

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    Pope Leo heads to Spain with migrants and polarisation in focus

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    Trump's UFC fight at White House combines punches and politics

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Trump says US delegation going to Pakistan for Iran talks, threatens new strikes

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday his envoys would return to Pakistan for new talks with Iran, while threatening new attacks on Iran's bridges and power plants unless it accepts his terms. Trump said the U.S. delegation would arrive on Monday evening, a timetable that leaves just a day for talks to make progress before a two-week ceasefire ends. "We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran," he posted on social media. "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" However, there was no immediate confirmation from Iran that it would attend any new talks. Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that there had been no decision taken to send a delegation while a U.S. blockade of Iranian ports was in place. A White House official said the U.S. delegation would be headed by Vice President JD Vance, who led the war's first peace talks a week ago. Trump's envoy Steve Kushner and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner would also attend.

Apr 20, 2026By Reuters
Trump says US delegation going to Pakistan for Iran talks, threatens new strikes
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Trump says US delegation going to Pakistan Monday for Iran negotiations

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States negotiators will be in Pakistan Monday to resume talks on ending the war with Iran, as he again threatened to destroy its power plants and bridges if no deal is reached. In a social media post Sunday, Trump also accused Iran of violating the countries' two-week ceasefire with attacks Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said he was offering Iran "a reasonable deal" and if Tehran says no "the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" In his fresh threat, made on his Truth Social platform, Trump said of Iran's bridges and power plants: "They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy and, if they dont take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years." The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on Sunday in the stand-off between Iran and the United States. Tehran on Saturday declared it shut again to maritime traffic after it on Friday had announced it was reopening,

Apr 19, 2026By AFP
Trump says US delegation going to Pakistan Monday for Iran negotiations
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Trump accuses Iran of 'total violation' of ceasefire, threatens new attacks unless it takes deal

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD - U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran on Sunday of a "total violation" of the two countries' ceasefire for firing on ships near the Strait of Hormuz, and renewed a threat to wipe out Iran's bridges and power plants unless it accepted his terms. With shipping still stuck in the strait two days after Trump and Iran announced it would open, Trump said his envoys would arrive in Pakistan on Monday evening, prepared to hold more talks. "We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran," he posted on social media. "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" Global oil prices fell and stock markets surged on Friday when Iran first announced it would reopen the strait, which it had effectively closed to all shipping apart from its own since Feb. 28 when Trump and Israel launched the war. But after Trump said he would continue a blockade of Iranian shipping, Tehran said on Saturday it was keeping the strait closed. At least two ships reported

Apr 19, 2026By Reuters
Trump accuses Iran of 'total violation' of ceasefire, threatens new attacks unless it takes deal
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Bomb experts try to defuse WWII bomb near Paris

COLOMBES, France — Authorities evacuated thousands of residents of a Paris suburb Sunday as experts sought to defuse a World War II bomb, police said. Nearly 800 police cordoned off the site in the northwest suburb of Colombes as specialists tried but failed in one bid to remove the detonator from the explosive, which was first discovered on April 10, police said. Experts now planned to detonate the bomb in a two-meter-deep pit, an operation expected to take "several more hours," according to police. Residents within a 450-meter radius were told early Sunday to move to local reception centers. Authorities expect to allow them back into their homes later in the day. Local official Alexandre Brugere on Thursday had described the operation as "risky" and requiring a "high level of preparation." Unexploded World War II ordnance is still found across Europe, particularly in Germany where bombs are regularly discovered on construction sites, 80 years after the conflict ended. In 2025, the discovery of a 500-kilogram wartime bomb halted traffic at the Paris Gare du Nord station, France's busies

Apr 19, 2026By AFP
Bomb experts try to defuse WWII bomb near Paris
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Bulgarians head to the polls to elect parliament for 8th time in 5 years

SOFIA — Bulgarians are heading to the polls on Sunday for the eighth time in five years, hoping to finally elect a parliament able to resolve the longtime political impasse that has gripped this Balkan country. The snap vote follows the resignation of a conservative-led government amid nationwide protests last December that drew hundreds of thousands, mainly young people, to the streets. The protesters called for an independent judiciary to tackle widespread corruption. Since 2021, the nation of 6.5 million has struggled with fragmented parliaments that produced weak governments, none of which managed to survive more than a year before being brought down by street protests or backroom deals in parliament. The revolving door of governments has fostered widespread public mistrust, voter apathy and a shrinking turnout in elections. Still, Sunday’s vote is significant as it could bring to power a left-leaning, pro-Russian former president — just days after Hungarian voters rejected the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement of Viktor Orbán, who cultivated close ties with

Apr 19, 2026By AP
Bulgarians head to the polls to elect parliament for 8th time in 5 years
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UK PM says 'appalled' by arson attacks against Jewish sites in London

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed Sunday to bring perpetrators of recent arson attacks on Jewish sites in London to justice as Britain's chief rabbi said "a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation" against Jews was accelerating. Starmer said he was "appalled" by a spate of recent arson attacks in northwest London, the latest of which came on Saturday night, after a similar incident late on Friday. "This is abhorrent and it will not be tolerated. Attacks on our Jewish community are attacks on Britain," the prime minister said in a post on X. "We will not rest in the pursuit of perpetrators." Counter-terror officers from London's Metropolitan Police are investigating multiple arson or attempted arson attacks against Jewish properties in Britain's capital in the past month. Officers have stepped up patrols in areas with large Jewish populations, amid an upsurge in antisemitic incidents in Britain. In the latest incident, a fire caused minor smoke damage to a room at Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow on Saturday night, said the Community Security Trust, which provide

Apr 19, 2026By AFP
UK PM says 'appalled' by arson attacks against Jewish sites in London
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Baby food brand HiPP recalls jars in Austria after sample tests positive for rat poison

VIENNA — Baby food brand HiPP is recalling some of its baby food jars after a sample tested positive for rat poison in Austria, officials said. Authorities believe the tampering occurred in 190-gram jars of baby food made with carrots and potatoes for 5-month-olds that were sold from SPAR supermarkets in Austria. The sample tested positive for the poison on Saturday. HiPP, in a statement, said it is recalling all of its baby food jars sold at SPAR supermarkets — which include SPAR, EUROSPAR, INTERSPAR and Maximarkt stores — in Austria as a precaution. Customers can get full refunds even without a receipt. The tampered jars have a spoiled odor, police said. HiPP said it cannot rule out that the poison was added through external contamination. Other details were not immediately available Sunday. A customer reported that a jar appeared to have been tampered with, police said, though no one had consumed the baby food. Authorities in Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are also investigating.

Apr 19, 2026By AP
Baby food brand HiPP recalls jars in Austria after sample tests positive for rat poison
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Pope Leo XIV heads to Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

LUANDA, Angola — Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for Angolans to fight the “scourge of corruption” with a culture of justice as he opened a poignant day in his African odyssey that will take the American pope to an epicenter of the African slave trade. Leo celebrated Mass before an estimated 100,000 people outside the capital and again sought to encourage Angolans. He denounced the exploitation of their mineral-rich land and people, who still bear the scars of a brutal, post-independence civil war. “We wish to build a country where old divisions are overcome once and for all, where hatred and violence disappear, and where the scourge of corruption is healed by a new culture of justice and sharing,” Leo said in his homily in Kilamba, a Chinese-built development about 25 kilometers outside the capital. Later Sunday, Leo will celebrate the Rosary prayer at the Sanctuary of Mama Muxima, an important Catholic shrine on the edge of the Kwanza River about 110 kilometers south of Luanda. The Church of Our Lady of Muxima, built by Portuguese colonizers at the end of the 16th century as part

Apr 19, 2026By AP
Pope Leo XIV heads to Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade
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Mass shooting in Ukraine's capital leaves 6 dead before police shot and killed gunman

KYIV, Ukraine — A gunman wielding an automatic weapon killed six people and barricaded himself inside a supermarket with hostages in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Saturday, before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. At least 14 people were wounded and taken to hospital. The 58-year-old attacker was not named by police, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was born in Russia, as authorities worked to piece together a motive for the violence. The mass shooting — unheard of in wartime Kyiv following Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — took place in a busy central district of the city, outside an apartment block and a nearby shopping center, leaving bodies on a crowded street as bystanders fled for safety. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw victims’ bodies in the street covered with emergency blankets before they were taken away. “The assailant has been neutralized. He had taken hostages and, tragically, killed one of them. He also murdered four people on the street. Another woman died in the hospital due to severe injuries,”

Apr 19, 2026By AP
Mass shooting in Ukraine's capital leaves 6 dead before police shot and killed gunman
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Humanoid robot beats human half-marathon world record in Beijing

BEIJING — A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, where the race kicked off. That was faster than the human world record holder, Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, who finished the same distance in about 57 minutes in March. The performance by the robot marked a significant step forward from last year's inaugural race, during which the winning robot finished in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds. The scale of this year's event was almost five times bigger than last year's, with more than 100 teams joining the competition, including five from overseas. But the race wasn’t without hiccups — one robot fell flat at the start line, another bumped into a barrier. Beijing E-Town said about 40 percent of the robots navigated the course autonomously, w

Apr 19, 2026By AP
Humanoid robot beats human half-marathon world record in Beijing
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