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Hotel in Iraqi capital Baghdad struck as attacks on US embassy intercepted
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which took place amid the escalating Israel-US war on Iran.
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Rubio, South Korea Foreign Minister Cho agree Strait of Hormuz key to global economy, Seoul says
SEOUL, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S.
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Cuba’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade
Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, the country’s power operator said, marking the latest nationwide blackout in recent years, and the first since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to the island of roughly 10 million people.
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War in the Middle East: latest developments
Here are the latest developments Monday in the Middle East war: - Israel president chides Europe - Israel's President Isaac Herzog told AFP that Europe should back his country's fight against Hezbollah, as Israeli forces carried out ground operations in Lebanon.Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war when Hezbollah attacked Israel on March 2 in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes.
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Russia has taken 12 settlements in Ukraine as part of general advances, top general says
MOSCOW, March 16 (Reuters) - Russia has taken control of 12 settlements in Ukraine in the first two weeks of March as part of advances along the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine, Russian
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Multiple suicide bombers hit Nigeria's Maiduguri city after years of calm
Multiple explosions from suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri Monday evening, police said, on the back of an overnight attack on a military post.The earlier attack was launched around midnight Sunday into Monday, on a Nigerian military post in Ajilari Cross district, a southwestern suburb of Maiduguri and just a few kilometres (miles) from the city's airport.
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Rubio designates Iranian-American Kamran Hekmati as wrongfully detained by Iran, cousin says
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated as wrongfully detained in Iran 61-year-old Jewish Iranian-American Kamran Hekmati, his cousin said on Monday.
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What we know on the 17th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
US President Donald Trump is trying to garner international support for securing the Strait of Hormuz — the vital waterway where the transport of oil has shuddered to a halt since the United States and Israel began their war with Iran.
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Number of US troops wounded in war against Iran rises to about 200
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. troops wounded in the war against Iran has risen to about 200, the U.S. military said on Monday, as the conflict
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Drone attack hits hotel in Baghdad, no injuries reported
CAIRO, March 16 (Reuters) - Iraq's interior ministry said on Monday that a drone hit a hotel in Baghdad without causing casualties or material damages.
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Israel president says Europe should back fight against Hezbollah as troops operate in Lebanon
Israel's President Isaac Herzog said on Monday that Europe should back his country's fight against Hezbollah, as Israeli forces carried out ground operations in Lebanon.In an exclusive interview, Herzog told AFP that "Europe should support any effort, any effort, to eradicate Hezbollah now".
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US allies balk at Trump’s appeal to help secure Strait of Hormuz
Two months after Donald Trump disparaged NATO allies for what he cast as their lackluster efforts in Afghanistan, the US president has warned that the alliance faces a “very bad” future if those same allies fail to support the United States in securing the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran effectively closed after it was attacked by the US and Israel.
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Iran foreign minister says his last contact with Witkoff was before war began
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday that his last contact with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff was before the U.S. and Israel launched
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Israel president tells AFP Europe should back efforts to 'eradicate' Hezbollah
Israel's President Isaac Herzog told AFP Monday that Europe should back his country's fight against Hezbollah, as Israeli forces carried out ground operations in Lebanon.Israel's military announced Monday it was conducting "limited" ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon to end the Iran-backed group's rocket attacks.
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Analysis-Gulf states press US to neutralise Iran for good as Hormuz crisis deepens
DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab states did not ask the U. to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic Republic still able to threaten the Gulf’s oil lifeline and the economies that depend on it, three Gulf sources told Reuters.
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Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power
HAVANA, March 16 (Reuters) - Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country's grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a U.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system.
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Bombs explode in northeastern Nigeria, leaving scores killed and injured, authorities say
Bombs exploded in at least three locations in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state Monday night, killing and injuring scores of people, the emergency services told The Associated Press, citing possible suicide bombings. Explosions were heard in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, where Nigeria’s homegrown jihadi Boko Haram extremists have waged an insurgency for more than a decade.
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Cuba electric grid collapses amid US oil blockade causing national blackout
Cuba has not received oil shipments since early January amid US pressure, worsening humanitarian crisis on the island.
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Alleged narco trafficker makes first US court appearance
Alleged Latin American narco trafficker Sebastian Marset made his first appearance in a US court on Monday after being handed over to the US authorities.The Justice Department said he made an initial appearance on Monday in a federal district court in Virginia.
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Factbox-US Health Secretary Kennedy's vaccine actions and policy positions
judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children.
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Pakistan strikes hit drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, Taliban says
March 16 (Reuters) - A Pakistani airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, killing or wounding an unspecified number of people, an Afghan Taliban spokesperson said on Monday, an action
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Migrant workers bear brunt of Iran attacks in Gulf
Bangladeshi migrant Ahmad Ali, 55, was doing his regular round delivering drinking water to residents in the United Arab Emirates when Iran launched its first retaliatory attacks against Gulf countries.Since February 28, Tehran has launched wave after wave of missile and drone attacks against the Gulf states in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
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Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing civilians in Kabul strike
The Afghan government on Monday accused Pakistan of killing civilians in fresh airstrikes on Kabul, but Islamabad said it had conducted precision strikes on military and "terrorist" targets. Pakistan dismissed the claim as "misreporting" and said instead that it had carried out precision strikes on "military installations and support infrastructure".
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Mediterranean states say adrift Russian tanker poses 'imminent and serious' threat
BRUSSELS, March 16 () - Italy, France and seven other nations told the European Commission that a Russian liquefied natural gas tanker adrift in the Mediterranean represents an ecological threat, and they urged swift action, a letter showed on Monday. Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged that the vessel was adrift in the Mediterranean and said Russia's further involvement in resolving the situation depended on "concrete circumstances".
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US judge blocks efforts to reshape childhood vaccine policy
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F.
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Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has previously argued that the Antichrist is not necessarily a person but could come as a global government system.
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Spain's king makes rare acknowledgement of country's colonial abuses
MADRID, March 16 () - Spain's King Felipe VI acknowledged abuses in his country's colonial past on Monday, a rare admission by the Spanish crown which has never issued a formal apology to former colonies. At its height in the 16th to 18th centuries, Spain ruled one of the largest empires in world history, spanning five continents including much of Central and Latin America, and practiced forced labour, land expropriation and violence against Indigenous people.
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Supreme Court to hear arguments over push to end legal protections for migrants from Haiti, Syria
The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria. The court declined, though, to immediately lift the protections for hundreds of thousands of people Monday, allowing them to live and work in the U.S. legally amid the administration’s wider crackdown on immigration. The Trump administration filed emergency appeals after lower courts stopped the immediate end of the program for 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,000 people from Syria.
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Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse
Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, the country’s power operator said, marking the latest nationwide blackout in recent years, and the first since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to Cuba.
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Israel says Lebanese displaced won't return until its own citizens are safe
TEL AVIV/BEIRUT, March 16 (Reuters) - Israel on Monday warned that displaced Lebanese driven from their homes by its military campaign would not be able to return until the safety of Israelis living near the border was ensured, as Israeli troops pushed into new parts of southern Lebanon. In a briefing, Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that soldiers were now conducting ground operations in "new locations", describing the latest offensive as "limited
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South Lebanon's Christian towns insist they are not part of Israel-Hezbollah war
In southern Lebanon's Ain Ebel, close to the border with Israel, Suad Jallad holds a poster of her son, killed by Israel last week, saying she would rather be buried next to him than leave.He'd say, 'I won't leave Ain Ebel,'" Jallad said.
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Securing the Strait of Hormuz: Tactics and threats
President Donald Trump is pressuring allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime choke point that has effectively been closed by Iran in response to the US-Israeli war launched last month.Trump added that Washington did not know if any mines had actually been placed in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.
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Iranian families weep as war dead are buried in Tehran cemetery
Marzia Rezaei wept for her son Erfan Shamei, who died in a blast at a military training camp days before he was due home on leave.
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EU's Kallas floats Black Sea model to unblock Strait of Hormuz
BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday she had discussed with the United Nations the idea of freeing up transport of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz
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WorldFire at Abu Dhabi Shah oil field caused by drone attack, Abu Dhabi media office says
March 16 (Reuters) - Authorities in Abu Dhabi on Monday were dealing with a fire at the Shah oil and gas field caused by a drone attack and said that no injuries had been reported so far, the Abu
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Iran, at UN, insists will not submit to 'lawless aggression'
Iran vowed at the United Nations on Monday that it would not submit to "lawless aggression", saying 90 million citizens were in "grave danger" from US and Israeli strikes.he asked, stating: "Iran is not a nation that submits to coercion, intimidation or lawless aggression."
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Iranian families weep as war dead are buried in Tehran cemetery
(Changes transcription of name to Erfan in paragraph 1, transcription of Rezaei throughout) By Maggie Michael TEHRAN, March 16 (Reuters) - As gravediggers prepared new burial plots for those killed in
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Factbox-How many people have been killed in the US-Israeli war on Iran?
March 16 (Reuters) - At least 2,000 people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, with Gulf states hosting U.S. military bases and personnel,
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Outrage as Afghan asylum seeker who fought alongside US dies in ICE custody
Family, advocates call for full probe after Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal dies less than 24 hours after being detained.
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Exclusive-US SEC enforcement director to leave agency after months on job, sources say
By Dawn Kopecki and Chris Prentice NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) - The U.S.
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Islandwide blackout hits Cuba as island struggles with deepening energy crisis
Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted a “complete disconnection” of the country’s electrical system and said it was investigating, noting there were no failures in the units that were operating when the grid collapsed. It was the third major blackout in Cuba over the past four months.
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Cuba to allow nationals living abroad to own businesses on island, NBC News reports
HAVANA, March 16 (Reuters) - Cuba plans to allow nationals living abroad, including in the United States, to invest in and own businesses on the island, the country's deputy prime minister told NBC
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