Top News on April 18

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Top news on April 17 ✹ Iran announced that it had opened the Strait of Hormuz to all merchant ships. Against this backdrop, the price of Brent crude fell to $90 a barrel. ✹ Trump promised that Israel would no longer bomb Lebanon, because the United States had forbidden it to do so. …

Top News on April 18

✹ In Kyiv, a Moscow native opened fire on passersby and took hostages in a supermarket. Six people were killed, ten were wounded. The shooter was killed

✹ Iran has once again blocked the Strait of Hormuz. Three civilian vessels came under fire

✹ The U.S. has again temporarily eased sanctions on Russian oil

✹ The Second Service of the FSB is responsible for the doping program in Russian sports, The Insider found. Its officers were the ones who tried to poison Navalny

✹ Ukrainian drones struck two oil refineries in the Samara region, a terminal in the Leningrad region, and an oil pumping station in Krasnodar Krai

✹ Axios reported the first U.S.-Cuba talks in Havana in 10 years

Text of the day: Tatiana Frolova on her friend, the artist Andrei Akuzin, who died by suicide in a pretrial detention center in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

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