Be it the airport of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia or the roads connecting cities across the country, the face of the former Bulgarian President is everywhere at the moment. Billboards and banners of Rumen Radev and his newly founded Progressive Bulgaria party dominate the visual landscape throughout the country. While other parties traditionally include a large … Read more
A gunman opened fire in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Saturday, killing six people and wounding more than a dozen, officials said. Five people died instantly and a young woman died in hospital from injuries sustained in the firing. The gunman himself was also killed. The attacker also took people hostage. He was shot after … Read more
04/18/202618 April 2026 Modi’s plan to expand Parliament related to reservation for women fails in vote In a major blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, his proposal to expand the Parliament of India to increase women’s representation failed after it was not able to garner enough votes in the lower house, the Lok Sabha. … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the death of a French UN peacekeeping soldier Saturday following an attack that also left three people wounded in southern Lebanon, saying that “everything suggests” Hezbollah being responsible for the attack. The Iran-backed group denied involvement. Source link
Skip next section IRGC says any ship approaching Hormuz will be ‘targeted’ 04/18/2026April 18, 2026 IRGC says any ship approaching Hormuz will be ‘targeted’ Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a warning on Saturday night, threatening to attack any ship approaching the Strait of Hormuz. The key waterway, over which Tehran has maintained a … Read more
The bridge uses burning and minting to move USDC between different networks. Users question the commissions, despite the transparency promised by Circle. Circle launched the USDC Bridge on April 17, 2026, an official frontend built on top of its USDC cross-chain transfer protocol, CCTP V2. It uses a burn and mint process to transfer native … Read more
The US Navy’s Southern Command has resumed attacks on what US President Donald Trump’s administration calls “drug boats”. It is believed that these are smuggler ships used by cartels to transport narcotics from South America to the US. According to various media reports, the total number of ships sunk since September 2025 has exceeded 50. … Read more
Several thousand people gathered in Milan on Saturday for a large rally attended by several European far-right leaders who spoke on immigration, security, and against EU regulations. Source link
A French soldier of the multinational United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, was killed in an ambush on Friday. Three others were injured, two of them seriously, in what UNIFIL and French officials called a “deliberate attack”. “Everything shows that responsibility for this attack lies with Hezbollah,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in … Read more
Pope Leo XIV denounced the “social and environmental disasters” linked to a “logic of extractivism” on Saturday, the first day of his visit to Angola, a country marked by decades of exploitation of its vast resources. Source link