Armed conflicts and attacks

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says he will not let himself be pressured by president Donald Trump and the United States to resign. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/10/cuban-president-defiant-despite-trump-pressure-to-resign

Politics and elections

Preliminary results released after yesterday's presidential election revealed that incumbent president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh won a sixth term in office with 97.81% of the vote, beating CDU candidate Mohamed Farah Samatar, who took 2.19% of the vote. (AP) (France 24)

• https://apnews.com/article/djibouti-election-guelleh-56800757f1108c104adb4bdc5ae880fa
• https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260410-djibouti-leader-claims-sixth-straight-term

Armed conflicts and attacks

The delegations of the United States and Iran arrive in Islamabad, Pakistan for ceasefire talks, the highest-level engagement between the two countries since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, with the Iranian delegation led by Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. delegation led by U.S. Vice President JD Vance. (Arab News PK)

• https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2639522/pakistan