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President Donald Trump personally joined a second round of ambassador-level negotiations between Israel and Lebanon at the White House on Thursday and announced afterward that the two sides had agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks. The Associated Press and Reuters confirmed the extension. The talks had originally been scheduled as a State Department…
The EU Council on April 23 adopted the final legislation needed to disburse a 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, resolving a months-long standoff that had threatened Kyiv's ability to sustain wartime operations. Reuters confirmed the formal approval, which came alongside new sanctions against Russia. The move allows the European Commission to begin disbursements in…
President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Navy on Thursday to shoot and kill any small boat caught deploying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, ordering simultaneous mine-clearing operations to be tripled. "I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be," Trump posted on Truth Social,…
A U.S. State Department delegation traveled to Havana on April 10 for the first high-level bilateral talks in nearly a decade. During that secret meeting, the administration presented a two-week deadline demanding the release of political prisoners, including dissident artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Osorbo. USA Today first reported the deadline; the AP…