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April 16, 2026 26 visible stories Conflict & Security / Diplomacy & Power / Cyber & Technology

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Conflict & Security

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Israel, Lebanon agree to 10-day cease-fire, Trump announces
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Israel, Lebanon agree to 10-day cease-fire, Trump announces

Last month, shortly after the war in Iran began, Israel started a massive bombing campaign against Hezbollah, a Lebanese-based, US-designated terror organization backed by Iran.

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Trump predicted Israel-Lebanon leaders would speak ‘tomorrow’ — Beirut shut it down as ceasefire emerges
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Trump predicted Israel-Lebanon leaders would speak ‘tomorrow’ — Beirut shut it down as ceasefire emerges

Lebanon's President Aoun will not speak with Netanyahu for now, a senior Lebanese official told Fox News Digital, dealing a setback to Trump's push for direct contact with Israel.

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Trump predicted Israel–Lebanon leaders would speak ‘tomorrow’ — Beirut swiftly shut it down
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Trump predicted Israel–Lebanon leaders would speak ‘tomorrow’ — Beirut swiftly shut it down

Lebanon's President Aoun will not speak with Netanyahu for now, a senior Lebanese official told Fox News Digital, dealing a setback to Trump's push for direct contact with Israel.

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Wild moment woman clings to moving car in Australian road rage incident
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Wild moment woman clings to moving car in Australian road rage incident

Wild footage has captured the moment a woman clung to the bonnet of a moving car, hurling abuse in a horrifying road rage incident on the Gold Coast.

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Influencer busted for allegedly funding luxe lifestyle with drug-trafficking money — weeks after ‘karma’ post
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Influencer busted for allegedly funding luxe lifestyle with drug-trafficking money — weeks after ‘karma’ post

A beauty queen has been busted for allegedly funding a lavish lifestyle with drug-trafficking money -- weeks after boasting that 2026 would be the “year of karma.”

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Pope Leo decries world ‘ravaged by tyrants’ amid war of words with Trump
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Pope Leo decries world ‘ravaged by tyrants’ amid war of words with Trump

Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants," in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday.

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Diplomacy & Power

Summits, sanctions, elections, leadership shifts, and statecraft.

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South African ex-police chief gets tissue stuck on forehead while sweating during corruption inquiry
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South African ex-police chief gets tissue stuck on forehead while sweating during corruption inquiry

A suspended South African police chief's testimony at the Madlanga Commission corruption inquiry was interrupted by a tissue stuck to his forehead.

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Trump says Israeli and Lebanese leaders will speak on Thursday: ‘Trying to get a little breathing room’
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Trump says Israeli and Lebanese leaders will speak on Thursday: ‘Trying to get a little breathing room’

President Trump announced the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak to one another — for the first time in decades — on Thursday. “Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon,” Trump wrote on Trut...

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Hungary’s new leader once idolized Orbán — now he’s the man who brought him down
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Hungary’s new leader once idolized Orbán — now he’s the man who brought him down

Learn about Péter Magyar, the former Orbán insider who ended Hungary's 16-year ruling regime and is now set to lead the country into a new era.

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Pakistani army chief visits Tehran in bid to broker renewed talks between US and Iran
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Pakistani army chief visits Tehran in bid to broker renewed talks between US and Iran

Pakistan’s army chief is set to meet with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday in a bid to ease tensions in the Middle East and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran after almost se...

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Student kills 9 in Turkey’s second school shooting in 2 days
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Student kills 9 in Turkey’s second school shooting in 2 days

A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country’s second such shooting in two days.

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UN filing accuses UK of forced displacement as Diego Garcia tensions and security fears grow
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UN filing accuses UK of forced displacement as Diego Garcia tensions and security fears grow

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a crimes against humanity complaint at the U.N. over the alleged forced removal of Chagossian people from the Diego Garcia islands.

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Iran has just weeks of oil storage left before it has to halt crude production: report
New York Post World 1m ago

Iran has just weeks of oil storage left before it has to halt crude production: report

Iran can only endure a complete halt of its crude exports for two months before it's forced to curb production, risking long-term damage to its oil fields, experts said.

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Strait of Hormuz now totally blocked — with US stopping 14 Iran-tied tankers and hundreds of others too scared to cross
New York Post World 1m ago

Strait of Hormuz now totally blocked — with US stopping 14 Iran-tied tankers and hundreds of others too scared to cross

With Iran threatening any ship that dares cross the Strait of Hormuz without its permission, and the US blockade halting Tehran's shadow fleet, traffic at the critical oil choke point has fallen to a near standstill.

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JD Vance AI memes flood Pakistan after his visit to Islamabad for Iran peace talks: ‘This is how we do soft power’
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JD Vance AI memes flood Pakistan after his visit to Islamabad for Iran peace talks: ‘This is how we do soft power’

Since swooping in to Islamabad to head peace talks with Tehran last weekend, Vance has been "spotted" at local restaurants, bazaars, mosques and tourist destinations across the capital city — with a little help from AI.

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Cyber & Technology

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How German rescuers plan to use air cushions to save Timmy the stranded, sick whale
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How German rescuers plan to use air cushions to save Timmy the stranded, sick whale

Timmy is lying in shallow waters near the eastern German town of Wismar and has barely moved for days.

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Iran threatens to sink American ships in Strait of Hormuz, claims US ground invasion would be ‘great’
New York Post World 1m ago

Iran threatens to sink American ships in Strait of Hormuz, claims US ground invasion would be ‘great’

Iran has threatened to sink American ships policing the Strait of Hormuz amid the blockade – and wildly claimed that a US ground invasion would be “great” for the clerical regime.

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191 people killed during ‘world’s largest water fight’ in Thailand
New York Post World 1m ago

191 people killed during ‘world’s largest water fight’ in Thailand

In the first three days of Songkran this year, more than 191 deaths have been recorded with 951 accidents and 911 injuries.

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Iran using cease-fire to dig out bombed missile bases hit by US, Israeli strikes: satellite images
New York Post World 1m ago

Iran using cease-fire to dig out bombed missile bases hit by US, Israeli strikes: satellite images

Iran is using the cease-fire to dig out its underground missile bases that were buried by US-Israeli airstrikes, according to recent satellite images.

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Society & Rights

Protests, courts, rights, migration, media freedom, and civic life.

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Nine dead, 13 wounded in second Turkish mass shooting in two days
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Nine dead, 13 wounded in second Turkish mass shooting in two days

A 14-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed nine people at a Turkish middle school, the second school shooting in Turkey in just two days.

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China Daily World

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