The US President announced the beginning of a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. According to Donald Trump, the US navy will begin to block “any and all ships attempting to enter or exit the Strait of Hormuz.” “At some point we will return to the principle of 'everyone is allowed in, everyone is allowed out,' but Iran is not allowing this to happen, limiting itself to statements that 'there may be mines somewhere' that no one but them knows about.

The United States delegation left Pakistan. Shortly before leaving Islamabad, Vance called the failure of the talks "bad news" for Tehran. According to him, Washington has submitted the “last and most advantageous” offer and is waiting for a response. He added that he spoke with President Donald Trump several times during his visit to Pakistan. The American leader himself said the day before that concluding a deal was not at all necessary: “We are negotiating.

Former British policeman Mark Bullen has become the first British citizen to be stripped of his citizenship due to suspicions of links to Russia. This was reported by The Sunday Times. According to the publication, the decision was made by Interior Minister Shabana Mahmud, citing national security considerations. Bullen, 45, served with Hertfordshire Police for more than ten years. In recent years he has been living in Russia and received a Russian passport in 2022.

On April 10–11, more than 200 birds were found dead and smeared in oil products on the coast of Anapa. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region. Previously, about 50 injured birds were reported during the same period. According to experts, the birds could have gotten into an oil spill discovered in the Black Sea about 11 kilometers from the coast.

In Estonia, on the coast in Lääne-Viru County, on April 12, a local resident discovered a fragment of a drone. We are talking about a part of the wing that was washed ashore by the sea, ERR reports . According to the press secretary of the Estonian Security Department, Marta Tuul, the found object is not a fallen drone. “A local resident found him this morning,” she said. Currently, investigations are ongoing, so the authorities are not disclosing additional details.

Photo: Swedish Coast Guard The Swedish Coast Guard boarded the cargo ship Hui Yuan, which, under the flag of Panama, was sailing from the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Region to the Spanish Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria. The ship was detained on suspicion of violating environmental legislation. According to Swedish authorities, coast guard aircraft noticed that the bulk carrier had washed the remains of coal from its deck into the sea.

In the case of Signal, we were talking about an investigation into an attack on an ICE center in Texas: according to media reports, the FBI was able to retrieve the deleted incoming messages of one of the users from the iPhone push notification database. Pavel Durov accused the messenger of receiving funding from the US government and having “too many controversial dependencies” on American companies, including Microsoft.

The domain of the social network Bluesky was included in the register of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor. This was brought to the attention of the independent registry of blocked sites, blockedin.org. Another unknown government agency also demanded that the social network be blocked. The decision of Roskomnadzor, on the basis of which Bluesky was blocked, was made back in December 2024. Bluesky is a decentralized service based on open source code.

Swedish authorities have released the bulk carrier Hui Yuan ( IMO : 9285550), which was previously detained on suspicion of dumping waste in the Baltic Sea. The ship's captain admitted that he had violated environmental laws and made a deposit to pay a future fine, the Swedish Coast Guard said . We are talking about a ship flying the flag of Panama, traveling from the Russian port of Ust-Luga to the Spanish Las Palmas (Canary Islands).

The head of the Investigative Directorate for the Ryazan Region, Lieutenant General Oleg Vasiliev, twice canceled decisions to refuse to initiate a criminal case into the torture of anarchist Ruslan Sidika, and an additional check is now being carried out. This became known from the response of the prosecutor’s office to the lawyer’s complaint, Sidiki’s support group told The Insider.

In Dagestan, two men died after visiting a police department in the Buynaksky district. This was announced by the Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of the Republic, Shamil Khadulaev, in his Telegram channel with reference to appeals from relatives. According to him, we are talking about the events that followed the shootout on March 30 in the village of Nizhny Dzhengutai, as a result of which police officers were wounded.

As the government of the Khabarovsk Territory said , the Rosneft company terminated the contract with Petro-Hehua due to the fact that the work was performed with poor quality and in violation of deadlines. The protesters demanded to organize a meeting with the management of the contracting company and restore the agreements, Minister of Information Policy Sergei Dmitriev told the publication Podem: “We did not have any violations of laws.

Similar towers are being built in other regions. In particular, earlier Radio Liberty discovered more than 20 such structures with large-caliber machine guns and Pantsir complexes on the territory and along the perimeter of the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. Modified versions of the Iranian Shahed-Geran drones are produced there.

There are 199 seats in parliament; 100 are needed to obtain a majority. But for a constitutional majority, which will allow the opposition to change institutions and cancel appointments previously made by Viktor Orban, 133 mandates are needed. At the same time, Fidesz still has more votes on party lists (national vote), but Tisza is winning sharply in single-mandate constituencies - 92 versus 13 . Hungary has a mixed system: some deputies are elected from lists, others from constituencies.

Tisza leader Petr Magyar said on his Facebook page that Orban had already congratulated him on his victory by phone. Reuters also reported the admission of defeat: speaking to supporters in Budapest, Orban said the election result was “obvious” and “painful” for his party, and confirmed that he congratulated the winners. According to him, Fidesz will continue to work in the opposition.