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April 12, 2026

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking to lunge and leg press his way to a historic fourth term, as the octogenarian politician uses a flurry of workout videos to convince voters he is fighting fit ahead of October’s crunch election.

[Op-ed by John McKay, former Liberal Member of Parliament and Canadian co-chair of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group.]

Before the post was deleted, Evangelical and Catholic allies called the image blasphemous in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.

“This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the pope said during a Palm Sunday sermon last month. “He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”

Iran executed at least 1,639 people last year, the highest number recorded there since 1989, two non-governmental organisations say.

April 13, 2026

The killer whales haven’t been spotted in UK waters since 2021 and are thought to be more than 60-years-old. Find out more here.

Hezbollah said Monday it carried out 11 attacks on Israeli targets, as air raid sirens sounded 15 times across northern Israel following launches from Lebanon, Anadolu reports.

The accommodation reservation website Booking.com has suffered a data breach with “unauthorised parties” gaining access to customers’ details.

Tokyo and the transatlantic security alliance have a shared problem: what happens if the US walks away?

NSW government urged to investigate if transport department refused to share cost of sensors that would detect a person entering coupling area

Budapest still won’t contribute to funding Kyiv, which is running out of cash, incoming prime minister says.

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Abraham Rodríguez stares at the corn furrows he must plough before the end of the day. It is not even noon in Artemisa, Cuba, but the sun beats down hard and he’s already tired: working the land is a tough job. He has done it for almost half his life, since he was 13 and his mother got a divorce. He is turning 26 this year.

The U.S. military’s 10 a.m. ET deadline to begin a blockade of ships entering and exiting Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz has passed, after talks this weekend failed to end the war.

We suggest that this flawed analysis helps to explain why the United States has been out-thought, outmanoevred and outclassed by the Iranians ever since the US and Israel launched their barbaric assault five weeks ago.

Israel and russia have a lot in common, they are both countries run by murderous regimes.

Two runners set new course records despite wind and rain.

TikTok users in Los Angeles are going viral for a bizarre new trend where they run into Scientology buildings to see how far they can get before being stopped and thrown out.

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ on Truth Social Sunday night, sparking outrage from Marjorie Taylor Greene and other social media users.

This may prevent a unified position on a legally binding and substantial Code of Conduct on the South China Sea.

Donald Trump has launched another attack on Keir Starmer as it emerged the UK will not be involved in his plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

Oil tankers are steering clear of the ​Strait of Hormuz ahead of a U.S. blockade later on Monday following failed peace talks ‌between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend, shipping data showed.

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The Hungarian prime minister concedes to Péter Magyar, who is set to win a supermajority in the 199-seat parliament.

It will cover an area two and a half times its current size, with new laboratories and homes.

CENTCOM has warned that blockade would apply to all ships regardless of flag

Staff at the shop in the East Midlands found a faded and worn label on the back of the painting, which linked it to The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh.

Sydney (AFP) – A woman will command Australia’s army for the first time since its founding 125 years ago, Defence Minister Richard Marles said Monday as he unveiled the “deeply historic” appointment.

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Taiwan’s Cabinet dismissed the Taiwan-related policy proposals unveiled by Beijing on Sunday as a “tool of coercion,” while responses from outside government ranged from caution to support.

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Supreme Court in the African kingdom of Eswatini has ruled that four men sent there by the United States last July under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program can finally meet with a lawyer after they were denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while held at a maximum-security prison.

Volunteers are helping archaeologists uncover evidence of Weymouth’s earliest settlements.

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April 11, 2026

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President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement or next diplomatic steps in sight.