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Technical analysis: The tit-for-tat tariff increase comes amid cross-border tension over illicit drugs and fate of politician Jorge Glas. Technical indicators suggest this is part of a coordinated campaign. Analysis ongoing. Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
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Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk. Source: Threatpost
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A researcher discovered five different exploit paths that stem from an architectural weakness in how Windows' Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism handles connections to unavailable services. Source: darkreading
Iran has rejected suggestions by Donald Trump that it has agreed to hand over its stockpile of enriched uranium. Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk. Source: Threatpost
The political drama culminates with the IRGC announcing that the Strait of Hormuz is once again restricted. Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
President Macron blames the attack on Hezbollah. The Iran-backed armed group denies "any connection" to the incident. Source: BBC News
On Our Radar eschelhaas Fri, 04/17/2026 - 19:07 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Global Issues & Institutions My Reading List Special Coverage / Global 17 April 2026 20+ minutes On Our Radar On Our Radar scans conflicts and crises around the globe every week and features some of the hotspots Crisis Group’s analysts are closely watching. Whether an under-reported trend or a headline-grabbing development, our field experts explain why it matters or what should be done. Share BlueSky Email Facebook Linkedin Twitter Whatsapp Save Print 17 April 2026 LIBYA The rival Tripoli and Benghazi-based legislative bodies approved a U.S.-mediated unified budget Saturday. The first such budget in more than thirteen years, it... Source: International Crisis Group
A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that could be exploited to access sensitive data. "A server-side Source: The Hacker News
Analysts say the war in Iran has temporarily delayed an escalation in smoldering tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. But renewed armed conflict cannot be ruled out. Source: World | Deutsche Welle
The North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC) approved a series of measures aimed at combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and improving stock assessments during its latest annual meeting in Osaka, Japan, April 14-17. However, several NGOs viewed the meeting as a step backward for fish stock management, calling out the commission’s failure to add […] Source: Conservation news
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