United States

• Tuesday, April 7th 2026 - 12:36 UTC

  Fresh strikes hit Kharg Island as Trump threatens to kill “a whole civilization” tonight

  

  The United States and Israel struck Iran's Kharg Island, the country's main oil export terminal, on Tuesday, hours before President Donald Trump's ultimatum for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face massive attacks on its power plants and bridges expires.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2026 - 12:28 UTC

  Chavismo and opposition faction seek judicial pause to shield Citgo and PDVSA assets

  

  Lawyers representing Delcy Rodríguez's government and those of the opposition sector that has controlled Venezuelan assets in the United States since 2019 jointly asked a New York court for a 45-day suspension in a case where international creditors are seeking to seize funds linked to Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

• Monday, April 6th 2026 - 01:00 UTC

  Trump threatens to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges over Hormuz Strait closure

  

  US President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to bomb Iran's power plants and bridges if Tehran fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping by Tuesday at 8:00 PM Eastern Time.

• Friday, April 3rd 2026 - 21:22 UTC

  Iran downs two US warplanes; search continues for missing crew member

  

  Iran shot down a US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet over its territory on Friday, marking the first confirmed downing of a crewed American aircraft since the war began five weeks ago. A second plane, an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, was also struck by Iranian fire and crashed after managing to exit Iranian airspace.

• Friday, April 3rd 2026 - 00:24 UTC

  Uruguayan national admits to scheme to circumvent US sanctions linked to Venezuela

  

  A 60-year-old Uruguayan citizen pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business in order to circumvent American sanctions linked to Venezuelan government officials, the Department of Justice announced on March 25.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2026 - 23:37 UTC

  Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi over Epstein files, political prosecutions

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, ending a turbulent 14-month tenure at the helm of the Justice Department. Trump confirmed the move in a Truth Social post in which he called Bondi “a Great American Patriot” and announced that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would step in as acting attorney general.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2026 - 04:52 UTC

  Artemis II lifts off successfully: humanity heads back to the Moon after half a century

  

  NASA's Artemis 2 mission launched Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972 — 54 years ago.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2026 - 03:01 UTC

  US lifts sanctions on Delcy Rodríguez, clearing the way for her visit to Washington

  

  The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday removed Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, from the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, the country's main financial sanctions registry managed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The move allows her to access blocked assets, conduct transactions with U.S. entities, and travel to American territory.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2026 - 03:00 UTC

  Trump vows to send Iran “back to the Stone Age” as oil surges back above $100

  

  Oil prices surged on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed in a televised address to the nation to hit Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 4.1% to $104.21 per barrel, while Brent, the international benchmark, gained 5% to $106.42, according to CNBC data.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2026 - 10:12 UTC

  Trump running out of options in Iran, a US victory is possible?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - The Iranians know they have won, but President Trump doesn’t get it yet. He’s still at the stage of counting up the US and Israeli air-strikes and assuming that those numbers mean a US victory is possible. But five gets you ten that the Iranians are already thinking about nuclear weapons. Not their own, which don’t exist. America’s.