- Mali’s Defense Minister, General Sadio Camara, was killed after a suicide car bomb hit his residence in Kati, the heavily fortified military town about 15 km from Bamako where interim president Assimi Goïta also lives. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/26/malis-defence-minister-sadio-camara-killed-amid-coordinated-attacks
- Brazilian President Lula condemned the shooting that took place during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington and expressed solidarity with President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and all attendees. In a social media post, Lula called the attack an affront to democratic values that everyone must protect. https://www.prensa-latina.cu/2026/04/26/lula-repudia-tiroteo-en-cena-de-corresponsales-en-eeuu/
- Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has presented a position paper calling for the reactivation of nuclear power plants, shut down for good in April 2023, as well as the construction of new ones. The party also wants to restart the Nord Stream gas pipeline, end subsidies for wind and solar energy, continue coal and gas use, and repeal several green transition laws. Chancellor Friedrich Merz, while also critical of the nuclear phase-out, has focused more on small modular reactors and fusion rather than conventional restarts. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/atomkraft-deutschland-100.html
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi embarked on a diplomatic tour that included Pakistan and Oman, with a visit to Russia also on his itinerary, amid intense diplomatic activity around the ongoing war. Araghchi held calls with his Saudi, French, and Turkish counterparts. Meanwhile, the planned direct talks between Iran and the US in Islamabad fell apart after Trump canceled the trip of his envoys Witkoff and Kushner once Araghchi departed Pakistan without meeting them. https://aje.news/i9lisw?update=4524267
- In the context of the ongoing 2026 war, Iran has continued to express firm backing for Hezbollah in Lebanon. After the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late February, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei, Hezbollah’s leader Naim Qassem vowed retaliation. Iran and Hezbollah maintain that Lebanon should be included in any US-Iran ceasefire, a position the US and Israel reject. Israel has continued carrying out deadly strikes in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah has been firing rockets and launching drone attacks against Israeli forces, including one on April 26 that killed an Israeli soldier. https://aje.news/i9lisw?update=4524142
- The Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM launched their first-ever acknowledged joint military operation, attacking multiple cities across Mali on April 25. The FLA declared that it had seized the northern city of Kidal, a former rebel stronghold captured by the Malian military and Russian mercenaries in 2023, after government troops and Russia’s Africa Corps withdrew under an agreement. JNIM also claimed attacks on Bamako’s international airport, Kati, and at least four other cities. A Malian government spokesman said 16 people were wounded and several militants killed. https://apnews.com/article/mali-attack-tuareg-separatists-jnim-a945998cb00044e8c52db0362baaed10
- A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission inspection report revealed that 31 sloths died at an Orlando import facility called Sanctuary World Imports (later renamed Sloth World) between December 2024 and February 2025. Twenty-one sloths imported from Guyana died in December 2024 when temperatures dropped to the 40s and 50s Fahrenheit in a warehouse that had no water, no electricity, and no heat. Another 10 sloths from Peru arrived in February 2025; two were dead on arrival, and the rest died from poor health. The facility operator said the building was not ready but it was too late to cancel the shipment. https://apnews.com/article/sloth-world-imports-florida-deaths-ca183945fd68478a667cd382e7cc7f9c
- Powerful winds battered 14 counties across Romania, tearing off more than 50 roofs from apartment buildings and houses, toppling 59 trees and 9 power poles, and damaging 10 vehicles. One person died in the city of Huși in Vaslui County after being struck by a roof ripped loose by gusts. Several others were injured by falling tree branches in Timișoara, Iași, and Bacău. Power outages hit 138 localities across six counties, leaving over 35,000 consumers without electricity. https://www.biziday.ro/355831-2/
- Militants identified by Pakistani authorities as members of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (referred to by the state as Fitna al-Khawarij) attacked the Daraban police station in Dera Ismail Khan on Friday night. The attackers used rocket launchers and heavy gunfire, collapsing a boundary wall of the station and severely damaging nearby shops. Police returned fire and repelled the assault; the attackers fled. No deaths were reported. https://www.dawn.com/news/1995171/police-station-shops-damaged-in-dera-terror-attack
- Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, a 21-year-old climber from Sankhuwasabha, was rescued after two days on Nepal’s 8,167-meter Dhaulagiri Mountain. He slipped near the summit and fell approximately 400 meters on Friday morning while descending after a successful summit. Members of the 14 Summit Expedition coordinated the rescue, bringing him down to base camp on Saturday night, and he was transported to Kathmandu for medical treatment on Sunday. https://nagariknews.nagariknetwork.com/social-affairs/rescue-of-climber-injured-in-fall-while-climbing-a-mountain-43-15.html
- Farmers in the community of Limón de Chagres in Panama’s Colón province marched on Saturday in opposition to the Panama Canal Authority’s plan to build a 4,600-hectare reservoir on the Indio River. The $1.6 billion project, slated to begin in 2027, is designed to secure water for canal operations and the general population in the face of worsening drought. Residents refuse to be resettled, viewing the project as a threat to their livelihoods and ancestral land. The Canal Authority says it has held over 200 meetings with communities and defends the project as essential to Panama’s water security. https://www.prensa.com/economia/comunidades-marcharon-en-rechazo-al-embalse-de-rio-indio-canal-defiende-su-urgencia/
- Rangers in Andorra rescued a roe deer that had been swept away by the current of a river. The animal had approached the water but was caught by the strong flow and was unable to escape on its own. The rangers (known locally as “banders”) intervened and pulled the deer to safety. https://www.diariandorra.ad/nacional/260426/els-banders-rescaten-cabirol-arrossegat-pel-corrent-riu_194878.html
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