DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations while trying to contain an ongoing outbreak that has killed more than 100 children in less than a month. The government began working to vaccinate children age 6 months to 5 years old in 18 high-risk districts Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump warns a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ but says Iran still has time to capitulate before 8 p.m. ET deadline. Facing heavy bombardment, many middle-class residents of Iran's capital have been waiting out the war in the country's coastal north.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts turned to the language of annihilation as he struggled to find a resolution to his war of choice in Iran.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz that had been repeatedly watered down in hopes those two countries would abstain. The vote was 11-2, with two abstentions from Pakistan and Colombia.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran’s president says 14 million Iranians, including himself, have volunteered to sacrifice their lives in the war. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply troubled" by the statement suggesting that an entire people or civilization may bear "the consequences of political and military decisions.”
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea launched a projectile off its east coast Wednesday in its second launch in two days, South Korea’s military said.
Today is Tuesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2026. There are 268 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 7, 1994, a day after the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a missile attack on their aircraft, the moderate Hutu prime minister of Rwanda, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and her husband were killed by Rwandan soldiers.
PARIS (AP) – French former President Nicolas Sarkozy maintained his innocence at an appeal hearing in Paris on Tuesday over his conspiracy conviction last year, saying that not a single cent from Libya helped fund his 2007 presidential campaign.
NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices plunged below $100 a barrel and Asia markets and U.S. stock futures jumped after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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