Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to "deal a powerful strike" against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, his office said. The reason for this was a violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, which launched missiles and drones at northern Israel and at Israeli units stationed in southern Lebanon. A ceasefire in Lebanon was one of Tehran's conditions for continuing negotiations with the United States.

Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who lost the election, said he was returning the parliamentary mandate he received as leader of the Fidesz party and would not take a seat in the new parliament. “The mandate that I received as leader of the list is actually my parliamentary mandate from the Fidesz party, so I decided to return it. Now I am needed not in parliament, but in the reorganization of the national camp,” Orban said in a video message published on Facebook.

Donald Trump told Fox News journalist Aisha Hasni that he canceled the trip of his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad because of Iran's position in the negotiations. "I told my people a while ago when they were getting ready to fly out, 'No, you're not going to fly 18 hours there. We hold all the cards. They can call us any time, but you're not going to take 18 hour flights to sit and talk about anything anymore,'" Trump was quoted as saying by Fox News.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov published the second track under the pseudonym “Durikovich” on his Telegram channel in Russian. The composition is called “Eh, VPNs are Faithful.” Durov accompanied it with the following caption: “It’s time to admit that my favorite genre is military marches 🥁.” The track contains these words: In 1818 I stood under the banner, In '19 I was in service. The 20th met with proxy horses, bowed to my IP address.

The 142-meter superyacht Nord, owned by Severstal owner Alexei Mordashov, passed through the Strait of Hormuz, according to traffic tracking service Vesselfinder. vesselfinder.com Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Yacht “Nord”, March 2022 Judging by data from Vesselfinder, as well as another similar service, Marinetraffic , the yacht left Dubai on April 24 and is heading to Oman. The ship passed through the strait, moving along a route south of Laraque Island, NBC News notes .

Other countries are also considering the same radical measure. Anupam Nath / AP / Scanpix / LETA Tourists photograph a great one-horned rhinoceros during a safari in India's Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. March 6, 2024 In November 2025, the Supreme Court of India passed a ruling that prohibits tourists from using phones in tiger reserves while on safari.

Six months ago, the Russian “Shahed” got into one of them. "Ukrainian Truth" tells how they live in this house today Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA House on Balzac Street in Kyiv, November 14, 2025 40 years ago - on the night of April 26, 1986 - a nuclear reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat.

Day 1522. Russia struck the Dnieper twice in a row - a residential building was destroyed and there were casualties. Ukrainian drones attacked Yekaterinburg for the first time Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

We'll tell you why as briefly as possible. Eksmo Publishing House has released a new novel by Victor Pelevin, “The Return of Bluebeard.” This book is not part of the Transhumanism Inc. series, which the writer has been working on in recent years. And yet, the novel, dedicated to the “monstrous moral decline of the world’s elites,” is qualitatively no different from his previous works. At Meduza’s request, the book was read by literary critic Alex Mesropov.

Russians Olga and Nikita Belov, who left for Finland after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, were denied asylum and are now under threat of deportation, write Mediazona and the Rulehti project . Former municipal deputy from St. Petersburg Svetlana Utkina, who lives in Finland, told Mediazona that the Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat wrote about the case of the Belov mother and son.

The moment has come when Western countries should demand steps forward from Russia, and not take them towards Vladimir Putin, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, answering a question about a possible invitation to the Russian president to the G20 summit, Ansa and Il Messaggero write. “I believe that now is the moment when we must demand steps forward from Putin, and not take them ourselves to meet him.

On April 25, Vladimir Putin signed three laws concerning the families of fallen military personnel and seriously wounded employees of the Russian Guard, as well as workers returning from the war. One of the documents amends the law “On Education in the Russian Federation” and gives the right to widows (and widowers) of war participants to enter universities and colleges for free.

Authorities in the District of Columbia mistakenly hung several Australian flags instead of British ones near the White House ahead of King Charles III's visit to the United States, Reuters writes. According to the agency, among more than 230 British flags there were 15 Australian ones. The mistake was quickly noticed and the flags were replaced, a county Department of Transportation spokesman said.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky arrived in Azerbaijan on a working visit and met with the country's President Ilham Aliyev. The meeting between Aliyev and Zelensky is taking place in the city of Gabala, according to the website of the President of Azerbaijan. Aliyev published photographs of the meeting. Zelensky wrote that he held “important negotiations” with Aliyev.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with The Associated Press that the United States has no plans to renew permission to buy Russian oil loaded on ships and at sea. According to the head of the Ministry of Finance, the extension of a similar permit for Iranian oil is completely excluded.