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Stories for April 12th 2026

  • Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 23:49 UTC

    Peru closes a troubled election day and begins a lengthy count with outcome uncertain

    Photo: Angela Ponce / Reuters

    More than 10,000 polling centers closed in Peru on Sunday after a ten-hour voting day disrupted by logistical failures that forced authorities to extend the schedule by one hour, to 6:00 p.m. local time. The National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) reported that 99.8% of polling stations were installed, but 15 voting centers in Lima — containing 211 stations — could not be set up, leaving 63,300 voters unable to cast ballots.

  • Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 23:07 UTC

    Hungary: Magyar's victory shakes European politics, dealing blow to Trump and Moscow

    Orbán called Magyar to congratulate him and then addressed supporters, calling the defeat “painful” but “clear.”

    Opposition leader Péter Magyar won Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday in a landslide that ends Viktor Orbán's 16 consecutive years in power. With 97% of votes counted, Magyar's Tisza party secured 138 of 199 parliamentary seats — a two-thirds supermajority granting the power to amend the constitution. Orbán's Fidesz won 55 seats, while the far-right Our Homeland party took six.

  • Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 13:30 UTC

    Trump escalates Gulf crisis with order for total blockade of Strait of Hormuz

    “No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” Trump wrote

    US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the Navy would immediately begin blocking all maritime traffic attempting to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz, and ordered the interception on the high seas of any vessel that has paid a toll to Iran.

  • Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 13:18 UTC

    Adorni scandal drags down Milei's poll numbers as courts probe his assets

    Despite the numbers, President Javier Milei and his sister Karina, the presidency's secretary-general, have stood firmly behind the Cabinet chief

    Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni has been formally charged with alleged illicit enrichment in a case investigating a reported 500% increase in his declared assets over a single fiscal period, according to a complaint filed by lawmaker Marcela Pagano. On April 9, federal judge Ariel Lijo ordered the lifting of banking and tax secrecy for Adorni and his wife, Bettina Angeletti, at the request of prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita.