Trump cancels US envoys' trip to Pakistan for talks on Iran war

Getty Images US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One in Palm Beach, Florida. Getty Images

Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by US officials to Pakistan for talks on the Iran war on Saturday, shortly after Tehran's delegation had left Islamabad.

The US president said special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner would be wasting "too much time", adding that if Iran wanted to talk "all they have to do is call".

Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi held talks with mediator Pakistan, saying afterwards he had shared Iran's position

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Orbán steps down from Hungarian parliament after landslide defeat

Getty Images Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban rubs his forehead as he speaks at a campaign rally. Getty Images

Hungary's outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he will not take up his seat in parliament after his party was defeated in a landslide that ended his 16-year rule.

"I am now needed not in parliament, but in the reorganisation of the patriotic movement," he said in a video statement released on social media on Saturday evening.

Despite his nationalist party Fidesz going from 135 seats to 52 in the 12 April vote, Orbán


Watch: How one orangutan braved new bridge to unite his split community

The forest where the Sumatran orangutans live has been split by a road.

Mexico says US agents killed in crash weren't permitted to operate there

Reuters A suspected clandestine methamphetamine processing lab, according to the Attorney General's Office of Chihuahua, discovered during an operation by Mexican authorities in a mountainous area near Guachochi, in Chihuahua state, Mexico, in this handout photo distributed on April 18, 2026.
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The two US agents were returning from an operation to destroy illegal drug labs in the northern state of Chihuahua

The Mexican government says two US agents who died last weekend in a car crash had not been authorised to operate in the country.

The officials, who reportedly worked for the CIA, had taken part in a raid on suspected drug labs in the northern state of Chihuahua before their vehicle skidded off a mountain road and exploded.

Following an investigation ordered by President Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's security ministry


Rights groups critical as Venezuela prisoner release scheme 'coming to an end'

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Interim President Delcy Rodríguez said the scheme was "coming to an end"

Human rights groups in Venezuela have criticised interim President Delcy Rodríguez for saying a scheme to release political prisoners was "coming to an end", having been in place for just nine weeks.

Nearly 500 political prisoners have been released under the amnesty law brought in by the country's National Assembly, prisoner rights group Foro Penal says, but many more are thought to still be in jail.


Hope in Gaza as 300 couples get married at one time

The 300 couples were selected in a draw of nearly 2,000 people to be a part of the joint celebration.

Palestinians in West Bank and some in Gaza vote in local elections

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Makeshift polling stations have been constructed in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, the only city in the territory where elections are taking place

Palestinians are voting in local elections on Saturday, including the first poll of any kind to be held in Gaza since 2006.

Elections are taking place across the occupied West Bank, as well as in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza where Hamas operates.

Hamas was not allowed to stand and several other factions have boycotted it over a requirement that candidates

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Mali army says armed groups launch coordinated attacks across country

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A Malian soldier stands in position near a military base in Kati outside the capital Bamako

Explosions and sustained gunfire have been reported in Mali's capital Bamako as armed groups launch apparently coordinated attacks across the country.

In a statement on Saturday the military said "fighting is ongoing", adding "our defence and security forces are currently engaged in repelling the attackers".

Witnesses have told the Reuters news agency of explosions and gunfire around the Kati military base, a major installation outside the capital. Soldiers have been deployed to

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Seven dead in major Russian attack on Ukraine

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Pictures release by Ukrainian authorities showed a badly damaged residential building in Dnipro

At least seven people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight, including five in the central city of Dnipro, where officials said an apartment building was hit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the latest attack lasted "practically all night", while rescue workers were still searching for survivors under rubble in Dnipro on Saturday morning.

British jets were scrambled from Romania during the heavy attack when Russian drones were detected near the border, though

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Dozens of sloths died before opening of Sloth World attraction in Florida

AFP via Getty Images A three-toed sloth hangs from a branch at the Metropolitan Natural Park, a protected area in Panama City on November 11, 2024 AFP via Getty Images
A three-toed sloth hangs from a branch at the Metropolitan Natural Park in Panama City

Thirty-one sloths planned for a new "slothnarium" in Florida have died before the attraction's planned opening, authorities have found.

The mammals were planned to be showcased at a permanent, public exhibit at Sloth World in Orlando, set to open this spring.

Many of the sloths died due to conditions at a Florida warehouse where they'd been shipped, according to a report