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On 25 April 2026 President Trump abruptly canceled his envoys’ Islamabad mission aimed at reviving U.S.–Iran talks, after which Iran’s foreign minister launched shuttle diplomacy and, within 48 hours, handed Pakistan a fresh plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war.
On 25 April 2026, President Trump abruptly cancelled a previously announced envoy trip to Pakistan that had been billed as the next round of U.S.–Iran cease-fire talks, halting the nascent diplomacy only a day after confirming it.
On 26 Apr 2026 Kim Jong Un opened a museum for North Korean troops killed in Russia’s Kursk fighting and, with visiting Russian defense chief Andrei Belousov, pledged deeper ties including a formal 2027-2031 military-cooperation plan.
On 25–26 April 2026, a joint assault by al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and Tuareg separatist FLA hit at least five Malian cities, killing Defence Minister Sadio Camara in Kati and compelling Russia’s Africa Corps to negotiate a withdrawal from the symbolic northern city of Kidal.
On 23 April 2026 all 27 EU governments approved a €90 billion, two-year loan for Ukraine and agreed to open the first reform ‘cluster’ of accession negotiations, actions long blocked by Hungary until Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat earlier in the month.
In the early hours of 25 April 2026, al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM and Tuareg-led FLA rebels mounted synchronized assaults from Kati to Kidal, breaching the capital’s outskirts, wrecking the defence minister’s home, downing a military helicopter, and overrunning Kidal— the first time the junta’s heartland and its northern prize fell under joint rebel fire since the 2020–21 coups.
On 25 Apr 2026, hours after Hezbollah rockets and drones violated the U.S.–brokered truce extended only two days earlier, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu directed the IDF to launch renewed, large-scale attacks on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
Defying earlier threats, President Trump on 21 Apr 2026 prolonged the U.S.–Iran ceasefire yet left a naval blockade intact, and within 24 hours Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot up a transiting container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Eight weeks of high-tempo strikes on Iran consumed key U.S. munitions so fast that on 23 April 2026 the Air Force unveiled a five-year, $20.2 billion plan to buy 4,300 AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles to rebuild depleted inventories.
On 23 April 2026 the EU’s 27 leaders unanimously cleared an interest-free €90 billion loan and a 20th sanctions round on Russia once Hungary and Slovakia dropped their vetoes following the resumption of Druzhba pipeline oil flows and Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat.
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