NEW: Satellite images show Iran using heavy equipment to dig out missile launchers trapped in underground tunnels during the ceasefire.

Recent US intelligence estimates that roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers remain intact after a month of fighting.

Many were likely buried by US and Israeli strikes on tunnel entrances, and Iran now appears to be recovering them.

Source: CNN

BIG: Europe is quietly preparing a backup plan for NATO in case Trump pulls the U.S. out or reduces its support.

The idea is to make the alliance far more European-led—sometimes called a “European NATO”—so the continent can still defend itself.

Source: WSJ

King Charles III will visit the United States from April 27–30, where he’ll address Congress and meet privately with Trump.

Source: CNN

WATCH: Polish MP Konrad Berkowicz displayed a modified Israeli flag with the Star of David replaced by a swastika in parliament, saying, “Israel is the new Third Reich.”

The IAEA says North Korea is significantly increasing its ability to produce nuclear weapons.

Chief Rafael Grossi pointed to expanded activity at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center and signs of a new uranium enrichment facility.

Iran's Fars:

A sanctioned Iranian supertanker sailed openly (with its tracker on) through the Strait of Hormuz into Iran without interference.

Péter Magyar:

Yesterday, I spoke by phone with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Türkiye. President Erdoğan congratulated me on the election victory and sent his best wishes to Hungary and the Hungarian people.

We agreed to continue cooperation between our countries in the areas of energy, security policy, trade, and culture.

President Erdoğan invited me to Ankara, and I invited him to Budapest to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution.

Israel's Shin Bet arrested an Israeli woman who photographed the oil refineries in Haifa for the Iranians and passed them information about a former member of the security establishment.

Source: N12

Pakistan secured $3 billion in new funding from Saudi Arabia to boost its foreign exchange reserves, with funds expected within a week.

The country will use this support to help offset a $3 billion loan repayment to United Arab Emirates after failing to extend the debt.

Source: Bloomberg

Lebanese Minister Ghassan Salamé:

If the Israelis have been unable to produce a complete disarmament of Hamas in Gaza in more than two years… how do you expect a much smaller, much weaker army to do it in Lebanon?

The members of that armed group are not foreigners. They are part of the population.

You are not fighting against a foreign enemy.

Lebanese Minister Ghassan Salamé:

I was appalled by seeing Netanyahu parading on Lebanese territory.

It’s my territory. It’s not his.

They flatten out whole villages.

I would advise our neighbors to the south some more humility.

Francesca Albanese describes her life now as completely transformed and unstable, saying it feels like a “rollercoaster.”

After speaking out on Gaza, she began receiving death threats, including threats against her children, and had to seek protection.

The pressure has extended to her family, with her husband’s career affected and her daughter also caught up in the situation.

Sanctions imposed by Trump’s administration have made everyday life difficult—her property was seized, she can’t use credit cards, and often relies on cash or help from friends.

Source: The Guardian

Trump on Péter Magyar:

I think the new man’s going to do a good job — he’s a good man.

I think he’s going to be good.

Source: ABC News

Senator Graham:

I’m actually okay with the way Trump is talking to a bunch of terrorists. I could care less what words he uses. I want outcomes.

Delaying the negotiations or extending the ceasefire — that could be a mistake.

We’ll comply with the law of war, but all hell’s about to break loose on this regime.

He’s offering them the ability to exist as a nation — not as a state sponsor of terrorism.

No moratorium on enrichment. I will not support that. Enrichment has to be none.

I don’t trust Iran when it comes to enrichment.

The 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium needs to be in our control.

Zelensky:

There is currently such a shortage of Patriot systems in Ukraine that it couldn’t get any worse.

Marjorie Taylor Greene:

We have to truly question the mental stability of any president that threatens to wipe out an entire civilization of people.

That would include all the innocent people in that country that have nothing to do with the war.

Marjorie Taylor Greene:

The current center right and left coalition in America has put us $40 trillion in debt.

They’ve funded foreign war after foreign war after foreign war, and now they’re funding another one, with no idea how long it will last.

It’s gotten to the point where Americans can’t afford life.

Zelensky:

The Strait of Hormuz is blocked, and we want to unblock it.

We already have experience from the blockade of the Black Sea.

America has not asked us yet.

Source: ZDF

Zelensky:

Americans are constantly in contact with Iran and have no time for Ukraine.

If the war lasts longer, there will be fewer weapons for Ukraine.

Türkiye's ROKETSAN shows successful test firings of its KARAOK short-range anti-tank missile in four scenarios, all direct hits.

The tests demonstrated fire-and-forget guidance and armor-piercing tandem warhead performance.

KARAOK has similar role as systems like US Javelin or Russian Kornet.

Max effective range: ~2,500 meters.

Effective from very close range (~76 m) to near maximum.

A BBC undercover investigation revealed that staff at a government hospital in Taunsa, Pakistan, reused syringes on children, likely causing a major HIV outbreak.

Between November 2024 and October 2025, at least 331 children tested positive for HIV, with more than half the cases linked to contaminated needles.