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The Hungarian Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, has achieved his goal in Brussels. The European Commission has announced the release of 16.4 billion euros of European funds blocked by Viktor Orbán’s policies just three weeks after taking office. “It was one of the campaign promises and we have fulfilled it,” celebrated the European popular, very smiling alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “If every time I come I leave with this amount of money, I will come more often,” he joked.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday that Israel will take control of 70% of the territory of the strip, where two million people live in misery among the ruins after two and a half years of offensive, to take advantage of the fact that “at this moment we are tightening control over Hamas in all directions.” Netanyahu explained in a press conference that Israel has already gained control of 60% of Gaza and that the next step will be to reach 70%.

A Russian drone struck in the early hours of this Friday on an apartment building in the Romanian city of Galati, near the Ukrainian border, and triggered a fire that caused two minor injuries and forced the evacuation of about 70 people, according to the Romanian Ministry of Defense. Romania, an EU country and a key NATO member due to its location on the alliance’s eastern flank, shares a 614-kilometer border with Ukraine.

Iranian state television reported on Thursday night – already early Friday morning in Tehran – that the Revolutionary Guard had shot down a US fighter jet.

Between attacks and counterattacks in southern Iran during the ceasefire, amid promising statements and threats of destruction or taking the war to other parts of the planet, negotiators from the United States and the Islamic Republic regime are said to have reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and start negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, according to Axios, as the Strait of Hormuz reopens to traffic.

No one suspected anything. On April 24, a patient succumbed to a lethal mix of high fever, diarrhea, and hemorrhages at a medical center in Bunia, the capital of the Ituri region, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In an area affected by tropical diseases, with the recurrent presence of cholera or malaria, that death did not raise too many suspicions.

Shortly before getting bogged down in the Iran war, Donald Trump launched the Peace Board, the initiative with which the US president sought to consolidate the pacification and reconstruction of Gaza. The project was surrounded by doubts from the start, and the passage of time seems to be proving the skeptics right: four months after its establishment, the body lacks official funding and has not made any progress on the ground.

After Monday’s bombings of missile sites and vessels, the ceasefire, decreed a month and a half ago, was back on life support on Wednesday, very fragile. The United States directed attacks against an Iranian drone operation and a ground control base near the Strait of Hormuz, to which the Persian country claimed to have responded with an offensive against a U.S. airbase in Kuwait. All this occurred hours after President Donald Trump denied information that he was about to reach an agreement with Tehran.

The imminence of the agreement with Iran, which Donald Trump declared practically done last Saturday, has been fading due to his excessive haste in the face of the economic punishment the United States is suffering because of a war he declared. Furthermore, the president is being criticized by Republican officials for accepting a pact they dislike given the survival of the ayatollahs’ regime.

Russia has decided to allow its main financial institutions to arm themselves with anti-aircraft defenses so that they can shoot down Ukrainian drones that attack them. This measure, included in a new law approved by the Duma (Lower House), is one more of those previously taken to try to stop the incursions of unmanned aircraft into Russian territory, which are becoming increasingly frequent.