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Exclusive-No appetite in EU for energy deals with Russia, Kallas says
BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - There is no appetite in the European Union to strike deals with Russia on energy amid soaring prices, also not behind closed doors, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas
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War in the Middle East: latest developments
Here are the latest developments Tuesday in the Middle East war: - Israel targets Larijani?- Israeli media reported that Israel targeted Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani in an overnight strike, though there was no immediate confirmation from Israeli officials.
4 min readAFP
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Israel claims to have assassinated commander of Iran’s Basij militia unit
If confirmed, Soleimani would be highest level assassination in war since US-Israeli killed Ali Khamenei.
1 min readAl Jazeera
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Exclusive-EU seeks diplomatic solution for Hormuz Strait, Kallas says
BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday diplomatic ways have to be found in order to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, as U.S.
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Israeli military strike targeted Iran's security chief Larijani, fate unclear, officials say
DUBAI, March 17 (Reuters) - Israel's military has targeted Iran's security chief Ali Larijani, four Israeli officials said, adding that it was not immediately clear whether he was killed or injured.
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UN report says Israeli airstrike on Iran prison is a war crime
GENEVA, March 16 (Reuters) - The head of a U. investigation said on Monday that an Israeli air strike on a prison last year was a war crime, and warned of risks of further repression following the current U.
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Asia pivots to coal as Middle East conflict chokes LNG supply
By Sudarshan Varadhan, Emily Chow and Ariba Shahid SINGAPORE/KARACHI, March 17 (Reuters) - Asian utilities are boosting coal-fired power generation to cut costs and safeguard energy supply, industry
3 min read - Technology
Fact Check: REAL Video Shows Statue of Jesus the Redeemer Being Erected on Mount of the Cross in Al-Qaa, Lebanon
Is a video showing a statue of Jesus the Redeemer being erected on the Mount of the Cross in Al-Qaa, Lebanon, real? Yes, that's true: The video shows the installation of a statue of Jesus the Redeemer in the Lebanese...
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Nigeria’s first state visit since 1989: President Bola Tinubu heads to UK
British pomp and pageantry await the Nigerian leader, but some in the diaspora are sceptical about his trip.
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Families search for loved ones after deadly Pakistan strikes on Kabul rehab
Afghan authorities say a Pakistani attack has killed hundreds of civilians; Islamabad rejects the claim as ‘false’.
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Rubio, South Korea's Cho agree Strait of Hormuz key to global economy, Seoul says
By Jack Kim and Kyu-seok Shim SEOUL, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S.
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Iraq in talks with Iran to safeguard oil tanker traffic through Hormuz
DUBAI, March 17 (Reuters) - Iraq's oil minister said Baghdad is talking to Iran about allowing some of the country's oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the state news agency reported on
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WorldRussian attack damages energy, port infrastructure in Ukraine's south, governor says
March 17 (Reuters) - A Russian attack damaged industrial, port and energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine's Odesa region on the Black Sea overnight, causing disruption to power supplies in
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Palestinian refugees face new displacement as Israel’s bombs hit Lebanon
Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees suffer amid war, facing insecurity and trauma, in camps under attack.
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'Many dead': Wounded survivor escaped Kabul clinic strike
Azmat Ali Momand had just finished his rounds, checking patients at the "Camp Omid" drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when the explosion erupted.Momand said there were 2,000 beds at the centre, which treated patients addicted to marijuana, amphetamines or other synthetic drugs.
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What we know on the 18th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
Frustration is mounting in the White House and among US allies, as countries resist US President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, and as Trump rebuffs Iran’s attempts at diplomacy.
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy to meet Starmer in London, to boost drone partnership
March 17 () - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is due to meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Tuesday to agree a deeper defence and industrial partnership, the British government said. The two leaders are expected to agree on an expanded declaration aimed at joint production and supply of drones and other military technologies, Downing Street said in a statement.
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Israeli attacks hit Beirut, southern Lebanon, one million displaced
Attacks hit three southern Beirut neighbourhoods, fighting in the south intensifies as Hezbollah engages Israeli army.
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Iran war: What is happening on day 18 of US-Israel attacks?
The US-Israeli attacks target Iranian cities as the conflict spreads to the region and causes a global energy crisis.
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Belgian court decides on holding trial over 1961 Congo leader murder
A Brussels court is to decide Tuesday whether a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat should stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba.If the prosecutors' request that he answer in court is accepted, he would become the first Belgian official to face justice in the 65 years since Lumumba was executed and his body dissolved in acid.
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Suspected suicide bombers target Nigeria’s Maiduguri city, killing 23 people and injuring over 100
At least 23 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in suspected suicide bombings Monday night that targeted Maiduguri city in northeastern Nigeria, police said Tuesday. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the conflict-battered city in recent history. Residents and emergency services earlier told The Associated Press that three explosions were reported in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, including in a major market and at the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
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Nigeria suicide attacks kill 23, wound more than 100
Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said Tuesday."Preliminary investigation reveals that the incidents were carried out by suspected suicide bombers," police spokesman Nahum Kenneth Daso said in a statement.
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Shigeaki Mori, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor embraced by Obama, dies at 88
TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters) - Shigeaki Mori, the survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing whom former U.S.
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Drone sparks fire at UAE oil site as Gulf takes more hits amid Iran war
The Fujairah oil hub has been hit repeatedly by Iranian drones as the US-Israeli war continues to ignite instability.
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Suspected suicide attacks kill at least 23 in Nigeria's Maiduguri
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 17 (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed and 108 injured in suspected multiple suicide-bomb attacks in Maiduguri city, capital of Nigeria's insurgency-
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War in the Middle East: latest developments
Here are the latest developments Monday in the Middle East war: - Oil prices jump - The price of oil jumped more than five percent Tuesday as several countries pushed back against US President Donald Trump's demand that they help secure the key Strait of Hormuz, while Iran targeted crude-producing neighbours.- Trump wants Hormuz 'enthusiasm' - The US president demanded that allies help secure the Strait of Hormuz, but European powers pushed back on a possible mission to reopen the vital waterway
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'It was like doomsday,' says Kabul hospital survivor after Pakistan air strike
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, March 17 (Reuters) - Ahmad, 50, watched flames engulf his friends at a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul where he was undergoing treatment, unable to save them as they
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Iran’s neighbours brace for fallout as war threatens new refugee crisis
As war engulfs Iran, neighbouring states quietly prepare for a potential refugee exodus across already fragile borders.
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Factbox-Reform UK's platform: Deportations, patriotism and 'save our pubs'
LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Operation Restoring Justice to control borders. A Deportation Command. More oil, gas and nuclear energy. Patriotism in schools. Save the pubs.
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Fire at Abu Dhabi's Shah gas field caused by drone attack, media office says
(Corrects headline to say gas, not oil, field and paragraph 1 to say gas field, not oil and gas field) March 16 (Reuters) - Authorities in Abu Dhabi on Monday were dealing with a fire at the Shah gas
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Ten foreign individuals arrested in Iran's northeast for spying, Tasnim reports
DUBAI, March 17 () - Ten foreign individuals accused of collecting information on sensitive sites and preparing field operations in Iran's northeast were arrested by the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence organisation, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. The news report did not give details on the individuals' nationalities.
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Israel says it has killed head of Iran's Basij militia
Israel said Tuesday it had killed the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ all-volunteer Basij force, a key force used to suppress demonstrations in the Islamic Republic, as Gulf Arab nations came under renewed missile and drone fire from Iran. Dubai, a major transit hub for international travel, briefly shut its airspace as the military said it was “responding to incoming missile and drone threats” around the city, and a man was killed by the debris of a missile intercepted over Abu Dhabi. The Israeli military also said early Tuesday it had begun a “wide-scale wave of strikes” across Iran’s capital and was stepping up strikes on Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
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Factbox-Half a million lose power as storms batter US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South
March 16 (Reuters) - More than 536,000 homes and businesses were without power on Tuesday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
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Hundreds of migrants are vanishing in the Mediterranean. Authorities are withholding information
Migrants’ tents abandoned overnight. Migrants trying to reach Europe are vanishing in droves in what are known as “invisible shipwrecks” but governments responsible for search and rescue are withholding information about what they know. Human rights groups are increasingly struggling to verify tolls as Italy, Tunisia and Malta have quietly restricted information on migrant rescues and shipwrecks along the deadliest migration route in the world.
Associated Press6 min read - World
Fact Check: Video Of School Courtyard Does NOT Show IRGC Members Being Bombed In Iran -- It's AI Video Made From Prewar Photo
Does a video on social media show what posts described as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, "hiding in schools thinking Israel won't bomb them"? No, that's not true: It's not real footage. The clip was made with generative AI from...
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The Latest: UAE briefly closes airspace as Israel strikes Beirut and Tehran
A drone attack in the United Arab Emirates sparked a fire at an oil tank farm Tuesday in Fujairah, an emirate on the country’s east coast with the Gulf of Oman that has been repeatedly targeted, the state-run WAM news agency reported. The report came after a brief closure of the UAE's airspace when the military reported it was “responding to missile and drone threats from Iran.” The Israeli military said Tuesday it had launched new attacks across Tehran and Beirut, with the strikes on the Lebanese capital targeting Hezbollah militants.
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Philippines rejects Beijing's claim to sovereignty over entire South China Sea
MANILA, March 16 (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Monday it rejected Beijing's assertion of sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, disputing a claim by China's embassy that a Filipino
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Cash handouts, fare hikes as Philippines battles soaring fuel costs
Hundreds of Philippine tricycle drivers lined up Tuesday in Manila for cash handouts they hope will provide temporary relief from a war-driven surge in fuel prices that has left the country scrambling for short-term answers."These are the highest fuel prices I've ever experienced," said Romeo Cipriano, who has driven a tricycle for four decades.
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Cuba tells exiles ‘doors are open’ to invest in businesses in the country
Cuba also says it is removing impediments to US businesses and other foreign investors.
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Flailing Cuba invites exiles to return, but hurdles remain
As President Donald Trump rachets up the pressure on Cuba’s communist-run government and threatens a US “takeover” of the island, he frequently repeats a central promise: that decades after they left, Cuban exiles will soon be able to return to their homeland.
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Pakistani strike hits rehab hospital in Afghanistan, Taliban says
The Taliban in Afghanistan claim that a Pakistani military airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul has killed over 400 people, but Pakistan alleges the site was a weapons depot.
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Explainer-From sponsor to enemy: What's behind Pakistan's attack on Afghan Taliban?
ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades.
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Top Asian News 7:16 a.m. GMT
Rescue crews were still digging bodies out of the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital Tuesday morning, after officials there said an overnight Pakistani airstrike killed at least 400 people at the facility. Pakistan has denied Afghanistan’s accusation that it targeted a hospital, saying its strikes, which were also conducted in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, did not hit any civilian sites.
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