🇺🇸🇷🇺 President Trump's diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Russia and is expected to meet President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

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🇹🇷🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- After the first round of Turkey-Israel talks completely failed, both sides have agreed to a second round. The next round of negotiations will take place on April 19, also in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Source: Kan11.

🇸🇾🇽🇰 - Meeting between Syrian president and president of Kosovo.

This could be a sign of imminent recognition of Kosovo’s independence by Syria btw

🇫🇷 - 3 people arrested in Saint-Etienne, France amid dismantling of a far-right survivalist cell.

🇫🇷 - French wind farm closed by judicial decision following the death of a golden eagle - Ouest France

🇪🇪🇷🇺 - Estonia has detained a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Baltic Sea for the first time.

🇺🇸 - Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.

🇳🇬 - Fitch upgrades Nigeria's credit grade citing commitment to policy reforms.

🇬🇦 - The African Union and the EU have deployed observers to Gabon to monitor the voting process during the presidential elections, held 20 months after the coup.

🇧🇾🇵🇰 Lukashenko: we are ready to invite 150,000 migrants from Pakistan to Belarus

The authorities of Belarus and Pakistan have agreed to “develop a mechanism” for the arrival of labor migrants. Alexander Lukashenko claims the country is ready to receive 120,000 to 150,000 specialists.

These statements were made on April 11 in Minsk during official talks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

— “My friend, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and I have also agreed that in the near future, specialists from various industries will be sent—those industries we specifically request. And the leadership of Pakistan will help us find such people.

Let it be 100,000, maybe 120,000 to 150,000 of these specialists. We are ready to welcome them in Belarus and create the necessary conditions for their work,” said Alexander Lukashenko (quoted by BELTA).

(Half of them will try to enter Poland)

🇵🇱 Poland is building a 55m tall statue of the Virgin Mary.

Construction has officially begun in Konotopie, Poland on what will become one of the tallest Virgin Mary statues in the world - surpassing even the height of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil.

While it won't take the global record (currently held by a statue in the Philippines standing over 300 feet / 91 meters), this monumental project is set to become an iconic symbol of faith in Europe.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran is not expecting "long" discussions with the U.S. in Oman.

🇷🇺 Demand for truck drivers in Russia collapses due to freight carrier bankruptcies

In March of this year, the number of job openings for category B, C, and E drivers (passenger cars, trucks, and vehicles with trailers) in Russia dropped by nearly 87.5% year-on-year, a representative of one of the country’s major logistics companies told Forbes on condition of anonymity.

The job platform Zarplata.ru provides slightly more optimistic figures. As of March 2025, demand for category C and E drivers fell by 47% year-on-year. The number of unfilled vacancies for category C drivers decreased by 42%, and by 53% for category E drivers, according to the platform’s data.

Maria Martynova, Executive Director of Courier Service Express, confirmed that the number of vacancies for category B and C drivers has decreased for the first time in the past two years.

Meanwhile, some freight companies have also reduced the wages of driver-forwarders, noted Delko Group CEO Sandzhar Ashuraliev.

🇺🇸 - Trump says tech excluded from tariffs.

I would tend to be careful with those kind of "war imminent don't worry bro its totally happening soon, I mean in 3 weeks, well OK in 3 months" speculation... but is it plausible that the Yemen war restart? Yes.

🇱🇧🇧🇬 - The Lebanese-French national who was accused of detonating explosives in a 2012 attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists has been buried in a Lebanese cemetery designated for fallen Hezbollah fighters.

🇱🇧🇧🇬 - Bulgaria recently returned the remains of the terrorist to Lebanon.

🇸🇩🇽🇰 - Sudan has officially recognized the independence of Kosovo.