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US President Donald Trump has issued a direct ultimatum to Iran: reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8pm Eastern Time in the United States on Tuesday, April 7 (midnight GMT on April 8), or face the destruction of national power plants and bridges.This echoes an earlier March 21 ultimatum in which he threatened to attack Iran’s power plants – “the biggest one first” – if the strait was not fully reopened within 48 hours.President Trump has since extended that deadline several times, citing progress in negotiations he claims the US is having with Iran to end the ongoing war. Iran…

Washington — President Trump is scheduled to hold a news conference at 1 p.m. ET on Monday at the White House following the successful rescue of a U.S. airman inside Iran over the weekend.  On Friday, an American F-15E fighter jet was downed by Iranian fire. The plane’s pilot was located and rescued that same day, but the second crew member, a weapons systems officer, remained missing in Iran’s mountainous terrain.The president announced early Sunday morning that the airman had been rescued. He later said that the airman, a colonel, was found “deep inside the mountains in Iran.” The recovery…

The S&P 500 Index futures rose on Monday as market participants reacted to the latest reporting that the US and Iran were in talks and considering a 50-day ceasefire. They rose by 25 points to $6,600. Similarly, those tracking the Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 rose by 25 and 115 points, respectively. Here are the top catalysts for the blue-chip SP500 Index this week.S&P 500 Index to react to US-Iran conflict The most important catalyst for the S&P 500 Index is the ongoing US-Iran conflict, which has entered its sixth week.Traders are reacting to an Axios report that said that the…

Ukrainian drones have attacked the ‌Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s Black Sea terminal, which handles 1.5 per cent of global oil supply, Russia authorities say.

The airline’s chief executive Bo Lingam told a press conference on Monday that it remained set on opening a planned hub in Bahrain in June, though he was non-committal on whether the plans would go ahead if the conflict drags on. AirAsia X in February unveiled plans to resume flights from Kuala Lumpur to London via the Bahrain hub, its first outside Asia, with services due to begin on Jun 26. That announcement, however, came before United States and Israeli airstrikes on Iran later that month, which disrupted aviation across the Middle East, with many airlines cancelling routes to avoid airspace in…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size More than 8000 Volkswagen vehicles are being recalled across the country due to a “safety risk,” Transport Canada said in a recent notice. According to Transport Canada, on certain vehicles, “a software problem could cause the instrument cluster not to display when the vehicle is started.”“As a result, you may not be able to see certain information about the vehicle, including the speedometer, gear selection indicators, warning lights and malfunction tell-tales,” the notice said. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s…

EXPLAINERA look at the multimillion-dollar mega structures that could be threatened by Trump’s ‘Bridge Day’ ultimatum.Published On 6 Apr 20266 Apr 2026United States President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash “Hell” on Iran by demolishing its critical infrastructure, including its bridges and power plants, if it does not open the Strait of Hormuz by early on Wednesday in Tehran.Trump casually described his plans, which many experts said would amount to war crimes, as “Bridge Day” at a time when the US and Israel have already bombed multiple Iranian universities, hospitals, schools, research centres and pharmaceutical companies.Just last week, a US…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California’s delayed, over-budget high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco is running fast in only one direction: Rising costs to even get rolling, which are now estimated to be $126 billion.”Today, we estimate with the right optimization just over $125 billion,” California High Speed Rail Authority board member Anthony Williams told CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday. “I think $126 billion is the current estimate for that.”That is nearly four times the $33 billion price tag presented to voters in 2008, making the long-delayed project a black eye for Democratic-run California, derided…

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SEOUL: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Monday (Apr 6) regret expressed by Seoul over a January drone incursion into the North is “wise behaviour”.Earlier in the day, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed regret to Pyongyang over drones sent into the nuclear-armed North earlier this year, actions he called “irresponsible”.”The ROK president personally expressed regret and talked about a measure for preventing recurrence. Our government appreciated it as very fortunate and wise behaviour for its own sake,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, using…