🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- King Charles III will meet with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani next week during his visit to the United States.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has released FPV drone footage showing a direct strike on an Israeli army vehicle carrying soldiers on April 22 in Qantara, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Today’s and tomorrow’s talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Pakistani officials will focus on relaunching negotiations, confirming that there will be no direct negotiations between Iran and the United States.

Araghchi is expected to leave for Muscat and Moscow soon after the talks with Pakistan, a Pakistani official tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🗽⚡️- New York Mayor Mamdani commemorates the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide during WW1.

Mamdani also acknowledges the ethnic cleansing which took place in 2023 of Armenians from Nagomo-Karabakh, which took place shortly before the Israel-Hamas war began.

GOP politicians and Christian organizations, with the exception of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, were notably silent when this happened when compared to their reactions to October 7th.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives in Islamabad.

🇮🇱⚡️- Benjamin Netanyahu was diagnosed with an early form of prostate cancer around a year and a half ago, received treatment, and then a tumor emerged once more, followed by additional treatment. He claims he is in good health and the treatment was successful.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high, has fallen a long way. Her attack on the First Lady of France is despicable. I believe, in this case, without verification, she is an extremely Low IQ individual!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇦🇺⚡️- Australians boo an Aboriginal “Welcome to Country” speech at the Anzac Day Dawn service in Sydney.

Credit: Noticer News.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- A Boeing P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft is operating near Cuban waters and even flew over the Isle of Youth for a brief moment.

🇺🇸🌎⚡- “On April 24, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "No renewal of waivers for Iranian and Russian oil imports." - US Treasury Secretary Bessent.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An IDF statement from earlier today: "The IDF recently attacked military buildings in the village of Deir Amess, located north of the front defense line in southern Lebanon, from which rockets were fired last night towards the Shatula settlement.

The buildings that were attacked were used by the Hezbollah terrorist organization to advance terror plans against IDF forces and the State of Israel.

The IDF will continue to act decisively against threats directed at the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF forces and operates according to the instructions of the political echelon." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An IDF statement from earlier today: "Earlier today (Friday), forces from the Paratroopers Brigade under the command of the 98th Division identified and eliminated six armed terrorists from the Hezbollah terror organization operating in Bint Jbeil, south of the front defense line in southern Lebanon.

The forces attacked the building from which the terrorists operated. In the strike, four additional terrorists who remained were eliminated.

There were no casualties among our forces.

This is another blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement by the Hezbollah terror organization.

IDF forces will continue to act to remove threats to the citizens of the State of Israel in the front defense line area." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇷🇺🇷🇴⚡️- "On the morning of Saturday, April 25, Russian forces resumed drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania, in Tulcea County.

The [British] Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft made radar contact with a target located 1.5 km from Reni, over Ukrainian territory. The pilots were authorized to engage the drones.

The Ministry of National Defense’s ground-based radars made radar contact with a group of targets as far as the area of Reni, Ukraine, where multiple explosions were reported.

Initial assessments indicate that an outbuilding on a property and an electricity pole were affected, with no significant damage.

Fragments of a drone have been identified in several locations in the area, which has been secured." - Romanian Ministry of Defence.

🇺🇸 - The US Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to include additional methods of execution for those convicted of the death penalty. The new additions are the firing squad, gas asphyxiation and electrocution.

🇺🇸 - "Some of President Donald Trump’s closest confidantes increasingly see Marco Rubio as a serious 2028 contender — an acknowledgement of the Floridian’s savvy handling of foreign conflicts and his ability to avoid political land mines.

It’s a striking turnaround for a politician once dismissed as too hawkish, too establishment and too scarred by a failed 2016 presidential campaign to matter in a post-Trump GOP. But his work on deposing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his steadfast loyalty to Trump have boosted him in the West Wing – and among some MAGA voters.

Rubio has said he would not challenge Vance for the nomination and it remains to be seen whether his conversion to MAGA politics could win a majority of Trump’s base if he did run." - Politico.

🇺🇸 - The US Space force has awarded 12 companies with a total of $3.2 billion for the purpose of building prototype interceptors for the planned Golden Dome missile defence system.

🇸🇴⚡️- The oil vessel, Honour 25, has been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia along with its 17 crew members on Wednesday afternoon, according to security officials who spoke with the BBC.

The vessel was carrying 18,500 barrels worth of oil when it was captured.

The nationality of the 17 crew members is ten Pakistanis, four Indonesians, one Indian, one Sri Lankan, and one from Myanmar.