Only five ships, including one Iranian oil products tanker, have passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, shipping data showed yesterday, after Iran seized two container ships this week and the US continues to blockade Iranian ports.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni yesterday urged Nato allies to stick together, after a report that the United States was mulling action against Spain over its refusal to support operations against Iran.

Conflict, drought and shrinking aid will keep global hunger at critical levels in 2026, with food insecurity expected to worsen in some of the world’s most fragile countries, according to the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises.

India has criticised as inappropriate a post by US President Donald Trump that called the South Asian country a “hellhole.”

Hope for renewed peace talks between the United States and Iran rose yesterday as reports said Donald Trump was sending his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Pakistan for talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Oil prices had climbed earlier on fears of stalled talks and Hormuz closure

Netanyahu delayed release of his medical report

Between April 22 and early April 23, seven vessels transited the strait, six of which were involved in Iran-related trade

US logistics and security team is already in Islamabad for talks

The first flights to resume will be to Istanbul and Muscat

Official announcement cites the need to ‘end armed terrorism’ and restore ‘the rule of law’

266 million people in 47 countries and territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025

Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of providing a safe haven to militants

Trump's remarks 'uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste', says Indian Foreign Ministry

The figure, compiled till midnight on April 23, signals the highest voter participation recorded in the state so far

Hezbollah wants truce to continue, says Israel must comply

Britain and France have agreed a new three-year deal to stop undocumented migrants making the risky journey across the Channel in small boats, the two sides announced.

A group of militants killed at least 10 people, including a Turkish national, at a copper and gold mining project in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said yesterday, with another Turk taken hostage.

Voting began yesterday in two of India’s politically key opposition-held states, with tens of millions casting ballots in West Bengal and the southern Tamil Nadu.

Cyber criminals hacked into the Sri Lankan finance ministry’s computer system and siphoned off $2.5 million, the government said yesterday, the most amount of cash ever stolen by hackers from a state institution in the debt-saddled country.