International

• Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 13:18 UTC

  European Parliament urges sanctions on Venezuela to remain until verifiable democratic progress

  

  The European Parliament approved on Thursday, by a wide majority, a resolution urging the Council of the European Union not to lift sanctions imposed on those responsible for human rights violations in Venezuela until the country adopts “significant measures toward a peaceful transition to democracy.” The text, promoted by the European People's Party, gained 507 votes in favor, 31 against, and 35 abstentions, and was backed even by the Socialists and Democrats group despite internal divergences over the strategy toward the government of acting President Delcy Rodríguez.

• Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 00:55 UTC

  Fire Watch Services for Texas Businesses: Staying Compliant and Operational

  

  Texas businesses operate in a fast-moving, high-growth environment where operational continuity is everything. Whether you’re managing a commercial property in Houston, overseeing a construction project in Dallas, or running a warehouse in San Antonio, fire safety compliance is not just a legal requirement—it’s a business necessity.

• Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 00:28 UTC

  2026 Major Events That Are Tradable Through Prediction Markets

  

  Prediction markets allow investors to trade on virtually anything, with politics and major events taking center stage. This has opened up a whole new market for speculators who watch geopolitics and culture very closely, with the potential to profit from predicting what happens next. To get started, however, you need to know what major events make the biggest waves on prediction markets.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 13:52 UTC

  Trump tells King Charles: “Americans have had no closer friends than the British”

  

  On the second day of his state visit to the United States, speaking before Congress, where he was repeatedly acclaimed with loud applause, King Charles III stressed the value and importance of the “indispensable” UK and US partnership.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 13:49 UTC

  UK government borrowing costs rise to their highest since 2008 financial crisis

  

  The extent to which UK is exposed to the ongoing energy shock, as a consequence of the Iran war, and fears or rising inflation, was exposed by the British government’s borrowing costs that have risen to their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 13:46 UTC

  US/Iran war lifting oil prices, but benefiting countries such as Australia, Norway and Brazil

  

  The US-Iran conflict has propelled currencies from energy-exporting countries into the limelight, with windfall profits from exports of oil, gas and metals helping them to outperform the US dollar.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2026 - 02:09 UTC

  King Charles avoids direct Iran reference and hails 'most consequential alliance' between UK and US

  

  King Charles III delivered a 28-minute address on Tuesday to a joint session of the United States Congress in which he hailed the “special relationship” between London and Washington as “one of the most consequential alliances in human history,” in a speech that avoided any direct reference to the war against Iran or the Epstein case, two issues that have strained transatlantic ties in recent weeks. The address marked the centerpiece of the monarch's state visit to Washington, held in the framework of the 250th anniversary of American independence.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 19:20 UTC

  United Arab Emirates leaves OPEC amid energy crisis fueled by Iran war

  

  The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday its withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the broader OPEC+ alliance, in a decision taking effect on May 1 that constitutes one of the most significant blows to the oil cartel in its more than six decades of existence. The announcement comes amid the largest energy crisis in years, triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the war between the United States and Iran launched on February 28, and on the eve of the OPEC meeting scheduled for Wednesday in Vienna.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 17:42 UTC

  King Charles prepares speech on 'reconciliation and renewal' to US Congress after White House welcome

  

  King Charles III is preparing to deliver an address to a joint session of the US Congress at 3:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, in which he will frame “reconciliation and renewal” as the defining themes of the bilateral relationship between London and Washington 250 years after American independence. The speech, expected to be one of the centerpieces of his state visit, comes after a heavily symbolic military welcome at the White House, where President Donald Trump extended to the monarch the highest protocol honor accorded by the United States to a visiting head of state.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 04:10 UTC

  Argentine VP tells islanders to 'go back to England' as US presses UK over F-16 jets

  

  The Falklands sovereignty dispute returned to the centre of the diplomatic agenda this week with two developments of immediate impact: comments by Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel demanding that islanders “go back to England” if they “feel English” — despite the fact that in the 2013 referendum islanders voted by a 99.8% majority to remain British — and a disclosure published by The Telegraph that the United States had pressured the British government to tolerate the delivery to Argentina of F-16 fighter jets sourced from allied territory.