World - Sunday, April 26, 2026

President talks to US program in wake of shooting at correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC Suspected gunman at White House press dinner named Donald Trump took to Trump Social on Sunday to repeat his statement from the night before in which he said the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was why a White House ballroom was necessary. “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” Trump wrote. It does appear the suspect was targeting members of the administration … We don’t have specifics yet about particular members of the administration, except that we do understand that that was his goal and his target . Continue reading...

Cease-fires in Lebanon and Iran are on shaky ground, with military attacks flaring and direct talks between Washington and Tehran to end their war stalled.

Peter Malinauskas says the booing was ‘outrageous’ and ‘self-indulgent’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Firefighters say two missing in Blue Mountains house fire are children Back to that house fire in the Blue Mountains we reported earlier : Firefighters are moving into the home with hose lines to gain access to the areas where they can search for the unaccounted for people. When I thought about it a bit more as the … day rolled on, I couldn’t help but feel a bit angry about it as well, which I think is a human response to a tragic set of circumstances. I don’t want to exaggerate it, but nor do I want to dismiss it. I think there was a couple of people that partook in the activity. And the reason for the anger is it’s just so self-indulgent. Any act of self-indulgence or any attempts to commandeer Anzac Day away from the cause that it actually represents, I think should be responded to with a full-hearted response by leaders around the country just about how outrageous it is. Continue reading...

Reports say veteran hardliner Saeed Jalili may replace Ghalibaf on Iran's negotiating team, deepening fractures within the regime's political leadership.

A wave of coordinated attacks by jihadist militants and separatists has spread through the country.

Naftali Bennett, a right-wing politician, and Yair Lapid, a centrist, will merge parties for a vote later this year.

Widely dispersed wind farms and solar panels are harder to target than fossil fuel power stations, Michael Shanks says Renewable energy will boost the UK’s national security and make the country more resilient against potential aggression or sabotage, the government’s energy minister has said. Michael Shanks said widely dispersed wind farms and solar panels were much harder to target than large-scale fossil fuel power stations. They are also not vulnerable to supply shocks, such as the current oil crisis caused by the US-Israel war on Iran and the soaring gas prices that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading...

Car bomb kills Sadio Camara at home during coordinated assaults by rebel groups including West African al-Qaida affiliate Mali’s defence minister was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said on Sunday, a high-profile fatality during coordinated assaults staged the previous day by insurgents including the West African affiliate of al-Qaida. A car laden with explosives driven by a suicide attacker drove into Sadio Camara’s residence in the town of Kati, the spokesperson, Issa Ousmane Coulibaly, said in a statement read out on state television. A firefight ensued, and Camara sustained injuries from which he later died in a hospital, Coulibaly said, adding that Mali would observe two days of mourning. Continue reading...

The US president says he saved eight Iranian women from execution, but Iran says otherwise.

An Iranian negotiator returned to Pakistan on Sunday, despite the United States abruptly calling off a trip there by its two top negotiators.