42-year-old US and UK citizen Jasvin Sangha, known as the “queen of ketamine”, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. She was found guilty of selling drugs that led to the death of actor Matthew Perry, Sky News reported on April 8. Sangha initially denied the allegations but agreed to change its position in 2025 weeks before the case went to trial. In total, five people pleaded guilty in the case of the death of Matthew Perry. Jaswin Sangha was the third person to be sentenced.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of withdrawing its troops from NATO countries that did not help the United States and Israel during the war with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on April 8. The proposed plan would see U.S. troops redeployed to countries that were more supportive of the U.S. military campaign.

Iran has told mediators in negotiations with the United States that it will limit the number of ships that can pass through the Strait of Hormuz as part of the ceasefire agreement to ten, The Wall Street Journal writes. Iran's navy has warned ships anchored in the area that they will be able to cross the strait after receiving permission from Tehran.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that Chechens will not fight for Iran in its war with the United States and Israel. He published such a statement in Russian and Arabic on a telegram channel on the evening of April 8 due to the fact that, according to him, “ information is being spread online that supposedly Chechen units are ready to move to Iran to repel an American ground attack.” “This could well happen if Iran fought only against the United States and Israel.

White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said US Vice President J.D. Vance will lead a team of US representatives at talks with Iran scheduled for April 11 in Islamabad. Along with him, the negotiating team will include US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and businessman, Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. “The first round of these negotiations will take place on Saturday morning local time, and we look forward to those in-person meetings,” Leavitt said at a briefing for reporters.

An outbreak of animal disease in the Novosibirsk region occurred due to mistakes by the authorities, atypical forms of pasteurellosis and weather, Rosselkhoznadzor said in response to a request from State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yuri Sinelshchikov. The deputy asked to reveal the reasons for the mass disease of animals in the region. The officials’ response was published by Ksenia Sobchak on her Telegram channel “Bloody Lady”.

The court sentenced to eight months probation a resident of the Moscow region, Marat Nikandrov, who was declared a “foreign agent” in 2023 at his own request, RBC reports, citing a court ruling. Nikandrov was given a probationary period of one year. He was found guilty of violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).

15 employees of the Russian Embassy in Hungary are connected with the intelligence services, and another six, presumably, may have such connections, the Agency found out. Journalists came to this conclusion after analyzing leak data over different years. In total, according to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, 47 employees work at the Russian Embassy.

Iran told the mediators that its participation in negotiations with US representatives in Islamabad is possible only subject to a ceasefire in Lebanon, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing sources familiar with the situation. Tehran also threatened that it might reconsider its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the publication's interlocutors say.

The actress allegedly created a “memory palace” for artificial intelligence. The project is being promoted as a breakthrough, but there are many questions about it Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images Ben Sigman, director of Los Angeles-based crypto startup Libre, announced the creation of MemPalace, a tool that allows artificial intelligence to remember past conversations with the user. MemPalace is based on the mnemonic “memory palace” technique, known since ancient times.

The New York Times published an investigation in which it named the creator of Bitcoin, hiding under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, British cryptographer Adam Back. For his investigation, journalist John Careiro studied more than 130 thousand messages in the Cypherpunks mailing list, a community of crypto enthusiasts that existed in the 1990s, and compared them with Nakamoto’s correspondence.

Where is its place in the new race to explore the Moon? NASA Photo of the Moon from the Orion spacecraft. April 6, 2026 The US and China have entered a new lunar race and are competing to be the first to land a man on the moon. The first movement in this direction can be considered the flyby of the Moon by American astronauts, which is ending literally these days. Russia traditionally also has an interest in the Moon, but it lags far behind the leaders.

The first ship passed through the Strait of Hormuz after Washington and Tehran announced a two-week ceasefire, Iranian state broadcaster reported. This message was quoted by TASS, Reuters and other media. The report notes that the ship received permission from Iran to pass through the strait. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth also said during a press conference at the department that the Strait of Hormuz is open for the passage of ships.

Ceasefire violations have been recorded in several places in the conflict zone in the Middle East. This was stated by Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, whose country is the main mediator in negotiations between the United States and Iran. “There are reports of ceasefire violations in several places throughout the conflict zone, which undermines the spirit of the peace process,” Sharif wrote on social media.

Iran has demanded that shipowners pay for passage through the Strait of Hormuz in cryptocurrency, writes the Financial Times. The chairman of the Union of Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Exporters of Iran, Hamid Hosseini, told the publication that the fee will be equal to one dollar for each barrel transported; empty tankers will be able to pass through the strait free of charge. Payment in cryptocurrency, Hosseini noted, was chosen to protect transactions from tracking and potential sanctions.