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A few hours after Donald Trump eased sanctions on Russian diesel, Ukraine set a major Russian fuel export terminal on fire.Ukrainian drones hit the NZNP Rostovsky oil export terminal in Rostov-on-Don overnight, “setting the facility ablaze just hours after the U.S. eased sanctions on Russian fuel exports,” according to the markets account First Squawk. Al Jazeera also reported the strike came hours after what it called a “Trump-Putin diesel deal.”The Hormuz Letter, an X account that covers oil markets, posted video of the fire lighting up the night sky.“This is a products export terminal, exactly where the diesel would leave Russia under the deal,” the account wrote.It also said Ukrainian military sources had warned earlier in the day that the Trump administration’s effort to use Russian diesel to bring down U.S. prices before the midterms “will bear no fruit.”The deal comes as Republicans struggle to contain voter anger over fuel costs three weeks before Election Day. The New York Times reported on Friday that record diesel prices are hitting farm states just as harvest season starts. Fuel prices have soared nationwide since Trump launched his war against Iran, the Times reported, and Republicans are now “triaging the map” as their internal polling gets worse.Trump’s turn to Moscow for relief puts the United States on the opposite side of Ukraine’s long campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure. Kyiv has spent the past year striking refineries and export terminals to choke off the oil money that funds Moscow’s war.MAGA pundit Brian Glenn said early Saturday, "Trump strikes a diesel deal with Russia. (To help soaring fuel prices, a good thing) Ukraine then bombs terminal to which the diesel would flow from. There you go."

Authorities impose strict lockdown in capital to try to stop rally against removal of 130m names from electoral rollIndian authorities have placed Delhi under a severe lockdown and detained tens of thousands of people, including the leader of the youth-led “Cockroach” movement, in an attempt to stop an anti-government protest.Thousands of people from across India were blocked from attending the demonstration, which had been called by the “Cockroach Janata party” (CJP) to protest against an exercise that has stripped 130m names from India’s electoral roll. Continue reading...

Donald Trump did not take the Nobel news well.Hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the 2026 Peace Prize to former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay, the president posted a nearly 600-word rant on Truth Social at 11:39 p.m. Eastern on Friday. He called the decision “an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten.”“This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things,” Trump wrote. “I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else!”He then argued he’d been shortchanged several times over.“In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1,” he wrote, before listing the eight conflicts he claims to have ended. “Egypt and Ethiopia” made the list, even though the two countries haven’t been at war. So did “Israel and Iran,” with his own administration still fighting Iran.Trump also said last year’s winner, María Corina Machado, had “stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year” that he “deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.”Pillay is an 85-year-old South African jurist. Before serving on the ICC, she defended Nelson Mandela and other opponents of apartheid, according to Reuters. Trump dismissed her as “a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of.”He finished with a shot at the committee.“The Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization!”The Nobel committee called international law “under tremendous pressure” in its citation. Last month, Trump urged countries to leave the ICC, Reuters reported.Ex-prosecutor Ron Filipkowski responded to the long-winded post, writing, "Donnie having a late night cry."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tore into President Donald Trump over a newly struck agreement he warned will bankroll Russia's war against his country.Zelenskyy told Axios in a phone interview Friday that Trump's move to let Russia sell its diesel on world markets was "not fair and not honest." He went further in a voice memo sent to reporters the same day, branding the deal a "weak decision" and accusing Trump of using Ukraine's negotiators "as a smokescreen," according to the Financial Times."You know, it looks like a happy birthday present for Putin," Zelenskyy told Axios, pointing to the Russian leader's birthday earlier this week. "It looks absolutely terrible."Trump announced the arrangement on Truth Social after a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming Moscow would ship roughly 4.8 million tons of diesel in stages. The timing stung Kyiv. Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Miami at that moment, sitting down with Ukraine's negotiating team and senior diplomats from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO to hash out new U.S. proposals for ending the war."At this very moment, while our team is speaking with the American team in Florida, the President of the United States is talking to the Kremlin leader, the leader behind this war and this aggression, and is reaching an agreement allowing Russia to export diesel," Zelenskyy said in the memo."This means millions, billions," he added. "Ultimately, it all goes towards the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us."He called the arrangement "certainly not how partners should act.""In my view, it is a weak decision," Zelenskyy said. "Sadly, a weak decision made by strong partners."Roughly two hours after Trump’s post, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a general license clearing the sale and delivery of Russian-origin diesel, including into the United States, through April 7, 2027. Trump’s announcement made no reference to the license.

Donald Trump has once again been passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s winner has spent her career at the kind of institution he’s trying to tear down.The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the 2026 prize on Friday to Navi Pillay, Reuters reported. Pillay is an 85-year-old South African jurist and a former judge at the International Criminal Court. The committee honored her “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.”“The system of international law is under tremendous pressure, and its institutions are under attack,” the committee said in its citation. “We see a shift towards power politics at the expense of legal frameworks and global respect for law and justice. Whenever might overtakes right, it undermines stability, trust and peaceful co-existence.”Trump has made his campaign against the ICC no secret. Last month he urged countries to leave the court, Reuters reported. His administration has already sanctioned several of its prosecutors and judges, and sources told Reuters it is considering wider sanctions.Pillay also chaired the U.N. commission of inquiry that concluded last year that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Israel called the report “scandalous.” Earlier in her career, she defended Nelson Mandela and other opponents of apartheid.The president has long said he deserves the prize. He told the U.N. General Assembly last month that it had been his “great honor to settle eight wars.”The committee wasn’t directly rebuking Trump, according to Haakon Gjerloew, acting director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.“Of course, he might react to someone who has been part of the ICC,” Gjerloew told Reuters, “but it’s not a direct attack on Trump.”Last year’s prize went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

Storm expected to make landfall on US’s northern Gulf coast with risk of flash floods and isolated river floodingIsaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, with wind speeds of 80mph and a minimum pressure of 975mb. It is expected to strengthen to a category 2 hurricane as it approaches the US’s northern Gulf coast on Friday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).As a result of the strong El Niño, it has been a notably quiet Atlantic hurricane season. The first hurricane of the season has not formed this late since 8 October 1905, which pre-dates the satellite era (1960s) for tracking hurricanes that has allowed for more non-landfall hurricanes to be discovered. Continue reading...

Employee had also been in Bali when he told his manager he was working from home, Fair Work Commission hearsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Sydney currency trader who was sacked for working from Singapore without approval has won an unfair dismissal case, but failed to be awarded compensation.The Fair Work Commission ruled on Wednesday that Charles Graham had been unfairly dismissed by HIFX Australia, trading as Xe, in December last year. Continue reading...

Matsadaash staff allege torture and forced confessions after being held on charges of working for Muslim BrotherhoodEgyptian journalists are planning a new protest in Cairo this weekend after six colleagues were charged with terrorism offences amid allegations they had been tortured in police detention.Last week, Egyptian authorities arrested the journalists, from the independent factchecking and investigative platform Matsadaash, accusing them in a statement of being unlicensed and producing false news on behalf of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Continue reading...