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AdvertisementMyanmarAsiaSoutheast AsiaMyanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrestState media broadcast a photograph of the Nobel laureate ⁠flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenReutersPublished: 12:33am, 1 May 2026Updated: 12:36am, 1 May 2026Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, over five years after the country’s military ousted a civilian government led by the Nobel laureate and imprisoned her.Suu Kyi, 80, has been detained by ‌the junta since and her whereabouts have been unclear amid a deadly civil war that was triggered by the February 2021 coup that has engulfed much of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
“… the remaining portion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence has been commuted to be served at a designated residence,” state-run MRTV reported, using an honorific for the veteran politician.
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AdvertisementUnited StatesWorldUnited States & CanadaMan charged with trying to kill Trump agrees to remain in custodyCole Allen, 31, did not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenReutersPublished: 11:50pm, 30 Apr 2026The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at a black-tie press gala in Washington agreed on Thursday to remain in custody while his case moves forward.
The suspect, Cole Allen, 31, would ‌not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community and should remain in jail, his lawyer, Tezira Abe, said during a court hearing.
Allen allegedly stormed a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.
AdvertisementProsecutors argued Allen carefully planned to attack Trump and other officials in his administration as they dined with some 2,600 journalists, politicians and others ⁠in a ballroom at the Washington..

JD Vance (Image/AP) US Vice President JD Vance has given a detailed account of the chaotic moments inside the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner after a suspected armed man allegedly attempted to breach security and target President Donald Trump.Speaking in an interview on The Will Cain Show on Wednesday, Vance said that he initially did not understand what was happening inside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton hotel during Saturday’s high-profile event.”I really didn't know what was going on,” he told Fox News host Will Cain.”Just to give you my perspective, I'm sitting up there on the dais with some journalists and obviously with the president of the United States, a few seats to my right, and there's a lot of commotion,” Vance said.He added that he began hearing loud and unclear noises while seated alongside senior guests at the event.”Then I see people kind of ducking under tables and responding to commotion in the back of the ballroom,” he said…

AI image generated by ChatGPT This is a city which symbolizes a period in our shared history, or what Charles Dickens might have called ‘A Tale of Two Georges’: the first President, George Washington, and my five-times Great Grandfather, King George III. King George never set foot in America and, please rest assured, I am not here as part of some cunning rearguard action, King Charles III said, standing in the US Congress.It was a laugh line. It was also the entire speech in miniature.Charles began with a joke about a king who lost America and a president who won it, only to gently reassure his audience that he had not come back to reclaim the colonies. It landed because it acknowledged the most awkward truth in Anglo-American history and then defused it. But it also set up something more interesting. A monarch who represents one of the oldest surviving institutions in the world was reminding the world’s most powerful republic why it exists.Or so it seemed.What Charles did next was to ..

AdvertisementUS, Israel war on IranWorldMiddle EastTrump says US blockade could last for months, warns Iran to ‘get smart soon’The president spoke to oil executives about extending his naval blockade, amid reports that he had rejected Iran’s Hormuz proposal
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 12:59am, 30 Apr 2026US President Donald Trump warned Tehran on Wednesday that it should “get smart soon” and capitulate to Washington’s demands for tight controls on its nuclear programme, as a US naval blockade turned the screws on Iran’s economy.
The US could extend its naval blockade of Iran for months more, oil executives were told in a meeting with Trump, an official said, after press reports that he had rejected Iran’s latest proposed deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran can’t get their act together … They better get smart soon,” Trump posted on his social media platform, above a mocked-up picture of himself toting a rifle in front of explosions wrecking a desert fortr..