US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to "house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.""REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" he posted on the Truth Social platform. "When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm."The federal prison at Alcatraz housed notorious US criminals such as Al Capone before it closed in 1963. It is now one of San Francisco's most popular tourist destinations."Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ," Trump wrote.

Israel Police arrested 18 illegal residents from West Bank cities Nablus and Tulkarm at a construction site in Haifa on Monday.

The IDF prevented an attempt to smuggle weapons from Jordan into Israel, the military announced Monday.During a Sunday operation, troops and police officers located four pistols in the northern area of ​​the Jordan Valley that were being smuggled.The confiscated weapons were transferred to the Israel Police for further processing, the military said.

US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the US movie industry was dying a "very fast death" due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers."This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.Trump said he was authorizing the relevant US government agencies such as the Department of Commerce to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariff on all films produced abroad that are then sent into the United States.Trump added: "WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!"

Hard-right eurosceptic George Simion won the first round of Romania's presidential election re-run on Sunday, near final results showed, after a ballot seen as a test of the rise of Donald Trump-style nationalism in the European Union.Ballots from nearly 99.6% of voting stations showed Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, 55, was in second place at around 21%, behind Simion's 40.6%. They will meet in a runoff on May 18.A Simion victory could isolate the country, erode private investment and destabilize NATO's eastern flank, where Ukraine is fighting a three-year-old Russian invasion, political observers say.

Ten people died when "sudden strong winds" capsized four boats carrying tourists, plunging 84 people into a river in Southwestern China on Sunday, state media reported.The last missing person was found around noon on Monday but showed no vital signs, China Central Television said.The Xinhua News Agency said 74 people had been rescued in the accident, which occurred in Guizhou province. Authorities sent 70 people to the hospital to be treated for "non-life-threatening conditions", state media said.