Our visual journalist David Guttenfelder traveled with displaced people returning to their homes in southern Lebanon, as a cease-fire paused the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. By David Guttenfelder, Coleman Lowndes, Christina Thornell, Sutton Raphael, Joey Sendaydiego and Thomas Vollkommer April 21, 2026 Source link
April 18 (Reuters) – Two Indian-flagged vessels carrying crude oil were on Saturday attacked while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, India’s Ministry of External Affairs confirmed in a statement. Tehran’s ambassador to New Delhi, Mohammad Fathali, was called in for a meeting with India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri during which Misri conveyed India’s deep concern at the shooting incident involving two Indian-flagged ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Misri urged the ambassador to convey India’s views to the authorities in Iran and resume at the earliest the process of facilitating India-bound ships across the Strait. (Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru, Editing by Louise Heavens) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – April 2026 Source link
Shipping companies said several things had to be clarified, including the presence of mines, Iranian conditions, practical implementations. Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026 Shipping companies have cautiously welcomed Iran’s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz is open but said they would require clarifications, including about the risk of mines, before vessels move through the entry point to the Gulf. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz was open to all commercial vessels during a 10-day Lebanon ceasefire accord, prompting a fall in oil and other commodity prices while stock markets rose. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list All commercial ships, including United States vessels, can sail through the strait, although their plans need to be coordinated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Iranian official told the Reuters news agency. Transit would be restricted to lanes which Iran deemed safe, adding that military vessels were still prohibited, the official said. “We are currently verifying the recent announcement related to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, …
By Parisa Hafezi and Jonathan Saul DUBAI/LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) – All ships can sail through the Strait of Hormuz but this needs to be coordinated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a senior Iranian official told Reuters, adding that unfreezing Iranian funds was part of the deal. Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote on X that the strait was open after a ceasefire accord was agreed in Lebanon, while U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed a deal to end the Iran war would come “soon”, although the timing remains unclear. Hundreds of ships and 20,000 seafarers have remained stranded inside the Gulf waiting to pass through the key waterway, which handles about 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows. The Iranian official said transits would be restricted to lanes that Iran deemed safe, adding that military vessels were still prohibited from crossing the strait. “Releasing Iran’s funds was part of the agreement for reopening the strait,” the official noted, referring to an estimated $30 billion in frozen revenue, generated mainly …
The freezer is filled with blue-lidded tubes of cows’ blood, ready to be defrosted and used to feed the colony of mosquitoes. “Also, you can use your arm,” says Nombuso Princess Bhembe, who tends the mosquitoes at Eswatini’s national insectary, an unremarkable building in the town of Siphofaneni, part of the southern African country’s push to eliminate malaria. But the landlocked nation of 1.2 million people, formerly known as Swaziland, is facing headwinds from not only the climate crisis, aid cuts and insecticide resistance but also economic migration from countries with higher case numbers. In 2024, Eswatini recorded 362 confirmed malaria cases, while neighbouring Mozambique recorded 11.6m cases, one of the world’s highest figures. Next door, South Africa recorded 4,639. It is easy for the malaria parasite to travel in the blood of people using informal crossings along porous borders. Nombuso Princess Bhembe tends a colony of mosquitoes at Eswatini’s national insectary. Photograph: Kat Lay/The Guardian And a changing climate is creating better breeding conditions for mosquitoes, while also extending the malaria season to coincide …
One day after a burst of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, when according to Bloomberg 19 ships crossed in either direction while Trump said that as many as 34 ships crossed the waterway on Sunday, shipping through Hormuz slumped back down again Monday, reversing Sunday’s jump, as caution mounted ahead of a US naval blockade. After 19 ships went through the Strait in either direction on Sunday – the most since the early stages of the war – the momentum reversed by Monday morning. Only four were observed passing on Monday: a single liquefied petroleum gas carrier was sighted entering the Gulf, and three small fuel tankers were raced to exit just hours before the blockade took effect at 10 a.m. New York time. Earlier in the day, the WSJ reported that the US has deployed more than 15 ships – including an aircraft carrier, multiple guided-missile destroyers, an amphibious assault ship and several other warships in the Middle East – in place to support the blockade. These ships have the ability to launch helicopters that support …
NewsFeed US President Donald Trump says the US Navy will immediately blockade the Strait of Hormuz and intercept ships that pay tolls to Iran – after talks in Islamabad failed to produce a peace deal. Al Jazeera’s James Bays looks at what this escalation could look like in the coming days. Published On 12 Apr 202612 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
Get our weekly Drive Smart newsletter for motoring news, reviews and advice from EV editor Steve Fowler Get motoring news, reviews and advice from EV editor Steve Fowler Get our EV editor’s weekly Drive Smart newsletter How do you make the Toyota Aygo X (pronounced “cross”, btw) one of the nicest little cars on sale, even better to own and drive? Well, if you’re Toyota, the natural inclination is to turn it into a hybrid, and so here we are: the Toyota Aygo X Hybrid, which means that all Aygo models sold in the UK now have this pseudo-SUV chunky styling plus “self-charging” full hybrid technology as standard, like a Prius (but no heavier plug-in hybrid options for the Aygo). The result? More power, superior performance and updated, sharper looks than the outgoing model. Better still, if that were possible, this smallest car in the Toyota range has been given a mild sporty makeover in the GR Sport variant, in which I had the pleasure of scooting around for a few days. It was a …
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Honduran family of an 8-year-old girl with a heart condition who died in U.S. custody after crossing the border in 2023 sued the federal government on Friday. An internal CPB investigation found found failures in providing proper medical care and that medical personnel did not review documents the mother offered which described the girl’s sensitive condition. In custody, Anadith had a high fever of 104.9 F (40.5 C) as well as nausea, breathing difficulties and pain. Despite pleas from her mom, the child was not taken to a hospital until her body went limp in her mother’s arms. Mabel Alvarez Benedicks described her daughter’s death in an emotional interview with The Associated Press later that week. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. Friday’s wrongful death lawsuit follows a tort claim made against the government last year which was denied in October. The lawsuit is seeking to cover damages suffered by the family but does not request a specific …
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a Sudanese man was detained on suspicion of ‘endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK’. Published On 10 Apr 202610 Apr 2026 British police have arrested a Sudanese man on suspicion of “endangering another” person after four people died while trying to cross the English Channel from France. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Friday that a 27-year-old man, who remains unnamed, was detained at a migrant processing centre in Manston, southern England. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list According to an NCA statement, the suspect was arrested on suspicion of “endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK” under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act. The arrest comes a day after two men and two women were swept away by the current after trying to board a small boat with dozens of others off the coast of Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, near Calais in northern France, on Thursday. So-called water-taxis are inflatable boats that cruise along the coastline picking up migrants and …
