In Makhachkala, amid heavy rainfall and flooding, a three-story residential building on Aivazovsky Street collapsed. According to authorities, the cause was soil erosion. Residents were evacuated; according to official information, there were no casualties. The house adjoined a six-story building. After the collapse, the area was cordoned off and rescuers are working at the scene.

In the Cambodian city of Siem Reap, a monument to a rat named Magawa, who became famous for his participation in mine clearance, was unveiled. According to the BBC, this is the first monument in the world dedicated to an animal trained to detect mines. Magawa, a male Gambian marsupial rat, has been working in Cambodia since 2016 after training with the Belgian non-profit organization Apopo.

Swedish authorities have released the Russian “shadow fleet” tanker Flora 1 (IMO: 9307815), previously detained on suspicion of an oil spill in the Baltic Sea. According to the Swedish Coast Guard, the investigation did not confirm signs of an environmental crime, and therefore there were no grounds for further detention of the vessel. The vessel was detained on the morning of April 3 and taken to an anchorage south of Ystad.

Iran attacked the Bapco Energies refinery, one of the largest in Bahrain, as a result one of the fuel tanks caught fire, but the fire has already been extinguished. Al Jazeera reports this with reference to company representatives. The company's management said that no one was injured as a result of the attack. Another fire broke out at the facility of another Bahraini company, Gulf Petrochemicals Industries Company, which was also extinguished and there were no casualties, Reuters reports.

According to the department, due to rainfall the reservoir was overfilled, which led to the destruction of the protective structure. Additional forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were sent to the site, including an airmobile group of 40 people and five pieces of equipment. Temporary accommodation points have been deployed. In the village of Mamedkala, 28 houses were flooded, about 100 people were evacuated.

US President Donald Trump announced the successful completion of the operation to rescue the second crew member of the F-15E fighter jet shot down over Iran on April 2. According to Trump, the pilot is now alive and safe, but was injured.

As Reuters notes, Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez is one of the country's largest gasoline producers. It is capable of processing about 320 thousand barrels of oil per day. Later, the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Yuri Shalabaev, said that power supply had to be restored in two regional settlements after the attack, but did not provide details or information about other damage.

Guangzhou executed 62-year-old French citizen Chan Tao Fumi, who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking back in 2010. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this on Saturday evening. “Despite the efforts of the French authorities, including attempts to obtain a humanitarian pardon for our compatriot, the Chinese authorities decided to carry out the sentence after more than twenty years of imprisonment. "We particularly regret that Mr.

A Volgo-Balt type cargo ship with a cargo of wheat sank in the Sea of ​​Azov. TASS, citing a source in the operational services, reported that two people on board were killed as a result of a UAV attack 300 nautical miles north of Kerch. It is unclear from the context whether the UAV attack caused the accident on the ship or whether the drones attacked an already sinking cargo ship.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on his Instagram page that Serbian military and police found explosives of “destructive force” and the means to activate them near the gas pipeline that carries Russian gas through Serbia to Hungary. After a telephone conversation with Vucic, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote on Facebook that he had convened an emergency meeting of the Defense Council. These statements came a week before the parliamentary elections in Hungary.

Armenia may leave the CSTO and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) if Russia increases gas prices. The speaker of the country's parliament, Alen Simonyan, announced this on April 4, emphasizing that such a decision would be Yerevan's response to Moscow's possible actions.

“Tuesday will be Power Plants Day and Bridges Day - all at once, in Iran. You've never seen anything like this before!!! Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards, otherwise you will live in hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP." A few hours later he wrote : "Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern Time!" The day before, April 4, Donald Trump already issued a sharp ultimatum to Tehran.

The American company Planet Lab has suspended the publication of satellite images of the conflict in the Middle East at the request of the American authorities. NPR science journalist Jeff Brumfield reported this on his Twitter (X) page, publishing a letter from the company. “During the conflict in the Middle East, the American government asked all satellite imagery providers to voluntarily refrain from publishing images of this area of ​​interest.