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First Thing: Vance to lead US delegation in Pakistan if Iran agrees to talks

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-21T11:11:12+00:00

Vice-president would travel with Witkoff and Kushner as ceasefire deadline looms. Plus, how to avoid an AI job scamGood morning.JD Vance is expected to fly to Islamabad to lead the US delegation on Tuesday if Iran agrees to further talks, as the deadline for the current ceasefire looms.What effect is the war having on developing countries? With food and fuel inflation reaching close to 20%, Fletcher warned: “We will feel the impact for years in sub-Saharan Africa and east Africa pushing way more people into poverty.”What are the impacts on displacement? Sexualized attacks are hastening the dis

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Strait of Hormuz: How a threat became a playbook

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-04-21T11:11:04+00:00

How the Strait of Hormuz became a system of control, shaping power and the global economy.

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The Shreveport shooting shows how Black women and children are at a higher risk of domestic violence

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-21T11:00:48+00:00

Cerina Fairfax in Virginia and Nancy Metayer in Florida were also killed by their husbands, yet deaths of Black women are least likely to garner calls for policy changeOn Sunday, eight children were shot and killed in the deadliest US mass shooting in nearly two years. The gunman was the father of seven of the deceased children and the cousin of another.Three others were shot and injured: the shooter’s wife, with whom he shared four children, the mother of his other three children, and a 13-year-old boy. Continue reading...

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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-21T11:00:47+00:00

An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’By 4pm, the light was softening over the Pacific, and the crew of the Don Maca were finishing a long day hauling in lines of swordfish and albacore. Down in the hold, the mood had settled into the familiar rhythm of a fishing day drawing to a close.“We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers, told the Guardian. “Everything was perfectly fine.” Continue reading...

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US waiver set to keep Russian oil exports to India near record high

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-21T10:51:38+00:00

India shipped in a record 2.25 million barrels ⁠per day of oil from Russia in March, nearly double February's volumes, making Russian oil 50% of its imports

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EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-21T10:39:56+00:00

ECJ says law passed in 2021 discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for incoming PMThe EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values, setting up an early test for the incoming prime minister Péter Magyar’s government when it takes power next month.In a wide-ranging judgment, the European court of justice said the 2021 law that bans content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV was at odds with a society based on pluralism and fundamental rights such as prohibition

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Asset Homes charts road map for FY27; to launch 28 projects

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-21T10:39:33+00:00

The company will complete construction and hand over 8 projects out of the 33 ongoing projects, covering approximately 600 residential units and 10 lakh square feet of built-up area

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Royal Mail invests £500m to tackle late deliveries as second-class post cut back

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-21T10:33:49+00:00

Company promises to meet new delivery targets by next May after being fined last year for poor recordBusiness live – latest updatesSecond-class post will be delivered every other weekday and scrapped on Saturdays from next month as part of a £500m plan to tackle late deliveries at struggling Royal Mail.The delivery company has been testing a new letter delivery pattern in a pilot since July, and it will be rolled out nationwide in May. Continue reading...

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Olly Robbins: I was asked to find job for Starmer aide and not tell David Lammy

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-21T10:32:00+00:00

Sacked civil servant says No 10 pushed Foreign Office to find diplomatic role for Matthew Doyle, without mentioning it to foreign secretaryUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street pushed the Foreign Office to find a diplomatic role for Keir Starmer’s communications chief over the head of the then foreign secretary, the former head of the department has revealed.Testifying to MPs at parliament’s foreign affairs select committee on Tuesday, Olly Robbins said he had several conversations with No 10 about finding a role for Matthew Doyle, who was later suspended as a Labour peer after it em

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