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US Lifts Seven-Year Ban on Direct Flights to Venezuela, First Flights Resume April 30

DHS Secretary Mullin signed the order rescinding the 2019 flight suspension, effective April 15. American Airlines plans to resume daily Miami-Caracas service at the end of the month, the latest step in a rapid US-Venezuela normalization following Maduro's capture in January.

WorldApr 17

Myanmar's Coup Leader Commutes All Death Sentences in First Week as President

One week after being sworn in as civilian president, Min Aung Hlaing ordered all death sentences commuted to life imprisonment and freed former president Win Myint, while the ICC weighs an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity.

WorldApr 17

IAEA Chief Says North Korea Shows 'Very Serious Increase' in Nuclear Weapons Production Capacity

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi warned from Seoul that North Korea has ramped up operations at Yongbyon and completed construction of a new uranium enrichment facility, expanding its ability to produce weapons-grade material.

WorldApr 16

Infantino Says Iran 'Coming for Sure' to World Cup in the U.S. as FIFA Rejects Venue Change

FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed Iran will play its three group-stage matches in Los Angeles and Seattle as scheduled, rejecting Iran's request to relocate games to Mexico. Iran's Sports Ministry had banned national teams from traveling to 'hostile countries.'

WorldApr 16

Pentagon Publishes $3.6 Billion Notification for Qatar Radar Iran Destroyed in March

The Federal Register published a $1.6 billion enhancement to Qatar's AN/FPS-132 early warning radar -- the same phased-array system Iran struck at Umm Dahal on March 3. The notification was filed with Congress three weeks before the war began.

WorldApr 16

West Bank Settler Violence Hits 20-Year High: 170 Palestinians Injured in March Alone

March 2026 recorded the highest monthly count of Palestinians injured by Israeli settlers in 20 years of UN documentation. Over 1,800 have been displaced this year, already exceeding all of 2025.

WorldApr 16

South Africa Sends the Man Who Negotiated the End of Apartheid to Washington as Its New Ambassador

President Ramaphosa appointed Roelf Meyer, 78, who served as the apartheid government's chief negotiator opposite Ramaphosa himself in the 1990s. The post has been vacant for over a year after Trump expelled the previous ambassador for calling MAGA a 'supremacist instinct.'

WorldApr 16

El Salvador Allows Life Sentences for Children as Young as 12, Effective April 26

Bukele signed reforms to four laws permitting life imprisonment for minors convicted of homicide, feminicide, rape, or gang membership. UNICEF, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and OHCHR have condemned the measures as violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

WorldApr 16

Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Denied Hospital Care After Heart Attack in Iranian Prison

Cellmates found the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner unconscious with cold limbs in Zanjan Central Prison on March 24. Iranian authorities refused to transfer her to a hospital despite a pre-existing cardiac condition requiring a heart stent.

WorldApr 16

Sweden: Russian-linked hackers attempted to destroy a heating plant's control systems

Sweden's civil defense minister revealed that pro-Russian hackers with ties to Russian intelligence tried to sabotage a thermal heating plant's industrial controls in western Sweden last spring -- a failed attack that signals Russia's shift from taking websites offline to targeting the physical infrastructure that keeps European cities warm.

WorldApr 16

Artemis II Crew Splashes Down After First Human Voyage to the Moon in 53 Years

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen returned to Earth on April 10 after a 10-day, 694,481-mile journey that took them around the Moon -- the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.

WorldApr 16

EU Says Its Age Verification App Is Ready, Tells Platforms 'No More Excuses'

The European Commission announced a privacy-preserving app that uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify users' ages without revealing personal data -- a direct challenge to social media platforms under the Digital Services Act.