🇪🇺 - EU hints at taxing ad revenues for companies like Meta and Google should 90 days-talks fail.

🇪🇺 - Illegal crossings into the EU dropped by more than 30 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2024, according to border agency Frontex.

The decrease comes amid an EU crackdown on migration, with Brussels planning harsher measures such as a plan to streamline deportations, tougher penalties for rejected migrants who refuse to leave and the creation of so-called return hubs in countries outside the EU to house people awaiting deportation.

🇺🇸🇬🇭🇧🇯 - African countries like Benin and Ghana tells Bloomberg they are worried that DOGE may cut military aid to these Western African countries facing terrorist threats, potentially paving way for bigger Chinese, Russian involvement in the area.

🇺🇸 - Consumers are spending less due to increased concerns about inflation and the economy, McDonalds says.

🇺🇸 - The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a 60-25 vote shortly after 2 a.m.

🇺🇸 - Senate Republicans face a major fundraising deficit compared to their Dem counterparts, Axios says.

🇪🇬 - Fuel prices has increased in Egypt by up to 15% in bid to please IMF, as the state subsidies on fuel weighs hard on the nation's budget.

🇻🇳 - Vietnam to push back on Chinese goods being shipped through its territory in bid to avoid US tariffs - Reuters

🇫🇷 - French parliament greenlights new bill authorizing farmers to use spraying of phytosanitary products using drone.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 - Britain pledges "hundreds of thousands of more specialised drones" to Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 President Trump's diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Russia and is expected to meet President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

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🇹🇷🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- After the first round of Turkey-Israel talks completely failed, both sides have agreed to a second round. The next round of negotiations will take place on April 19, also in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Source: Kan11.

🇸🇾🇽🇰 - Meeting between Syrian president and president of Kosovo.

This could be a sign of imminent recognition of Kosovo’s independence by Syria btw

🇫🇷 - 3 people arrested in Saint-Etienne, France amid dismantling of a far-right survivalist cell.

🇫🇷 - French wind farm closed by judicial decision following the death of a golden eagle - Ouest France

🇪🇪🇷🇺 - Estonia has detained a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Baltic Sea for the first time.

🇺🇸 - Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.

🇳🇬 - Fitch upgrades Nigeria's credit grade citing commitment to policy reforms.

🇬🇦 - The African Union and the EU have deployed observers to Gabon to monitor the voting process during the presidential elections, held 20 months after the coup.