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16.04.2026 18:33 No vessel breached the U.S. blockade on Iran in the first 24 hours, the U.S. Central Command said on Tuesday, while ship-tracking data showed that several vessels continued to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on the same day.

16.04.2026 18:33 A bigger, stronger and more lethal Defence Force is better placed to defend Australia and its interests, according to Chief of the Defence Force Admiral David Johnston.

16.04.2026 18:33 The Justice Department today announced the sentencings of two U.S. nationals, Kejia Wang, 42, and Zhenxing Wang, 39, for their roles in facilitating North Korean remote information technology workers posing as U.S. residents to obtain work at more than 100 U.S. companies.

16.04.2026 18:33 UK military chiefs have been asked to find £3.5bn in "efficiencies" and other savings this year, even as Sir Keir Starmer says he is readying his armed forces for war, according to Sky News.

16.04.2026 18:33 More than 1,000 jobs have been secured through a new contract to help sustain Army Apache and RAF Chinook helicopters.

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16.04.2026 18:33 A majority of the Republican-controlled ⁠US Senate voted to block a Democratic-led resolution aiming to stop the war in Iran until attacks are authorized by Congress.

16.04.2026 18:33 Amid continuing hostilities, relief efforts were stepped up in swaths across the Middle East, challenged by mass displacements in Lebanon and aid access constraints in Gaza, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday.

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16.04.2026 18:33 US President Donald Trump says the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will hold talks on April 16, the first such negotiations since 1993, as they seek a cease-fire to end more than six weeks of war with Iran-backed Hezbollah, a militant group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon. It is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, while the European Union has blacklisted its armed wing.

16.04.2026 18:33 Japan has been strengthening the deployment of offensive weapons and equipment including missiles in regions close to China under the cover of so-called defense and counterstrike, which is essentially an attempt to build a forward fortress of military confrontation and threatens regional peace and stability, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.

16.04.2026 18:33 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday an extension of the current U.S. ceasefire with Iran is "not true at this moment."

16.04.2026 18:33 The HH-200, a new large cargo drone built by Aviation Industry Corp of China, the country's leading aircraft manufacturer, made its debut flight on Wednesday, AVIC said in a news release.

16.04.2026 18:33 Comrade Kim Jong Un , General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw an artillery firing contest of artillery sub-units under the large combined units of the Korean People's Army in the western area organized on April 15, the Day of the Sun.

16.04.2026 18:33 Iranian state media reported that Pakistani Army Commander Asim Munir had arrived in Tehran on April 16 as the head of a high-ranking political-security delegation.