A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point flies over an overturned vessel offshore Saipan, Saturday, April 18, 2026, while searching for a missing vessel, the Mariana, that experienced an engine failure April 15. AP/U.S. Coast Guard/Air Station Bar hide caption toggle caption AP/U.S.
FILE - The Titanic leaves Southampton, England, April 10, 1912, on her maiden voyage. AP/AP hide caption toggle caption AP/AP LONDON — A life jacket worn by a passenger on RMS Titanic as she escaped the sinking steamship on a lifeboat sold at auction on Saturday for 670,00 pounds ($906,000).
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has rejected speculation that the US is ending its membership in the NATO alliance. "I don't see the US leaving NATO," Rutte said in an interview with the Sunday edition of Germany's Die Welt newspaper. The NATO chief said he also does not question contnued US nuclear protection of Europe.
It was the shelling that drove Syrian man Imad Omar Qashit from his home again. Fourteen years ago, he fled from Syria to Lebanon. This time, it was the other way round.
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Live Published April 18, 2026 last updated April 18, 2026 Indian government's bid to redraw voting boundaries tied to quotas for women legislators was blocked in a parliament vote. It is the first major legislative setback for PM Modi's government. DW has the latest.
The Trump administration on Friday renewed a waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil and petroleum products at sea for about a month. The monthlong waiver on Russian oil and petroleum products came two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had no plans to extend the sanctions relief.
Skip next section Lebanese PM condemns attacks on UN peacekeepers April 18, 2026 Lebanese PM condemns attacks on UN peacekeepers Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday condemned what he said was an attack on French United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.