LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) – Only five ships, including one Iranian oil products tanker, have passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, Friday shipping data showed, after Iran seized two container ships this week and the U.S. continues to blockade Iranian ports. Shipping traffic passing through the crucial waterway at the …
A U.S. Army special forces soldier, who took part in the January raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, has been arrested for allegedly using insider information to place bets with the online prediction platform Polymarket. Nicole Sganga reports.
By Kate Abnett and Jonathan Saul BRUSSELS/LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) – European Union countries agreed on Friday to keep pushing for a global price on shipping’s CO2 emissions in U.N. talks next week, setting up another potential clash with the United States over the proposal. Governments at the International Maritime Organization decided last year to …
Washington’s premier soiree on Saturday is most identified by its modern form: a red carpet for the capital’s journalism elite, political staffers and an assortment of American business leaders and celebrities — with the leader of the free world and a comedian offering roasts. Some years are forgettable and relegated to C-SPAN archives. Others produce …
MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has fallen for a seventh week in a row to 65.6%, its lowest level since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to state pollster VTsIOM. Russia’s paramount leader, who was appointed acting president by Boris Yeltsin just eight years after the fall …
CHISINAU, April 24 (Reuters) – Moldova’s parliament voted to lift the country’s energy state of emergency from Saturday, which had been imposed after Russian attacks in neighbouring Ukraine knocked out a power line providing most of Moldova’s needs. Moldovan officials have said that Russian attacks in March put out of action the Isaccea-Vulcanesti line, which …
April 24 – Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Friday it had arrested the main suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, one of the worst acts of violence attributed to the former government of Bashar al-Assad, in which 288 civilians were killed. The ministry released footage of Amjad Yousef’s arrest in the Al-Ghab Plain area of …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The eyes are the windows not only to the soul, but also to a person’s health, a new study says. They found that people had a higher risk of chronic disease if they had advanced aging of their retinas — the light-sensitive layer of …
Washington — Days after the United States opened its military campaign against IranPresident Trump sought to project confidence in the nation’s war footing, declaring that America possessed a “virtually unlimited supply” of key munitions and could fight wars “forever” using them. The remark conveyed a familiar image of American military power, a projection of being …
The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet, rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles. …