Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released early from prison yesterday, an AFP journalist outside the Bangkok jail said.

An American national and a French woman evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive, officials said yesterday, as the complex operation to repatriate those on board continued.

As the war in Iran enters its third month, it’s providing a window for China into how US military capabilities work under fire, and a useful reminder that, on any battlefield, the adversary always has a big say in the outcome.

Beijing said yesterday it was ready to work with the United States in pursuit of “more stability” and confirmed that Donald Trump will visit China this week, the first US president to do so since 2017.

Health officials dismisse comparisons to the Covid-19 pandemic

Trump is expected to press China's President Xi Jinping on the Iran issue

White House announced Trump's visit several weeks ago

All the US citizens are being airlifted to the United States, and the two passengers with symptoms are travelling in the plane's biocontainment units, HHS added.

Iran had responded to Washington's latest peace proposal earlier in the day, while warning it would not hold back from retaliating against any new US strikes or permit more foreign warships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Before he opened fire on the Florida State University campus last year, killing two people and wounding six others, Phoenix Ikner had a conversation.

President Donald Trump will visit China from May 13 to 15, Beijing confirmed on Monday, with the US leader expected to discuss Iran and trade with his Chinese counterpart

He also accused Tehran of "laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country"

Iran responded to Washington’s latest peace proposal yesterday, after drones threatened several Gulf region targets and Tehran warned it would not hold back from retaliating against any new US strikes.

The comments come as Iran is reported to have responded to the latest US proposal on ending the conflict

IRNA reports

Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's national security commission, issued a similar warning in a post on X

A militia attack killed at least 69 people in Ituri province in the conflict-torn northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local and security sources told AFP Saturday

Bodies found

Australia's right-wing populist One Nation party, which wants to emulate US President Donald Trump's aggressive deportations, vowed to focus on ending mass migration, after winning its first seat in the country's lower house.

Relative calm prevailed around the Strait of Hormuz early today after days of sporadic flare-ups, as the United States waited for Iran's response to its latest proposals to end more than two months of fighting and begin peace talks.