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Sri Lankan authorities escorted the Iranian naval auxiliary vessel IRIS Booshehr toward port and transferred 208 of its crew to a naval camp, officials said. The move came two days after a U.S. submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena nearby, an attack that killed 87 people and has amplified regional hostilities with knock-on effects for trade …
A senior U.N. official said about 100,000 people are currently in collective shelters in Lebanon after Israeli orders for residents to evacuate multiple areas, and that displacement is likely to rise rapidly. The U.N. coordinator described the scale of recent evacuation warnings as unprecedented and noted shelter capacity is being strained, with ma…
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk said he intends to travel to Washington later this month but expressed skepticism that the visit will change the trajectory of a rapidly escalating regional confrontation that has entered its seventh day after U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. Turk urged international actors to move quickly to de-escalate a…
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has constricted vital air, sea and land routes, creating bottlenecks that delay and raise the cost of humanitarian shipments. Aid organizations report supplies stranded in regional hubs, damaged port infrastructure and emergency surcharges from carriers, impairing relief efforts to Gaza, Sudan and other hunger-affected …
Intense exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces have erupted at dozens of locations along their long shared border, forcing more than 100,000 people from their homes, the United Nations says. The fighting, which has included Pakistani air strikes on Taliban government installations and Afghan retaliatory actions, shows no immediate si…
Israeli forces launched sustained airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled neighborhoods in southern Beirut after directing residents to evacuate. Hezbollah in turn warned Israelis living near the Lebanon border to withdraw, and Lebanese authorities reported dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries from the recent strikes.
The U.S. Justice Department on March 5 posted FBI records that summarize interviews with an unidentified woman who made allegations about both Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump. The records show the woman was interviewed four times in 2019 as part of the Epstein probe and include claims that Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex…
UK ministers have decided to postpone planned modifications to copyright rules that would have made it easier for artificial intelligence companies to access and process protected media content. Officials told people briefed on the matter that responses to a two-month consultation failed to endorse any of the proposed frameworks, prompting a decisi…
A U.S. Court of International Trade judge will meet in a closed-door settlement conference with government attorneys to determine how to refund as much as $175 billion in tariffs the Supreme Court recently invalidated. The meeting centers on creating a practical mechanism for reimbursing more than 300,000 importers, a task the government says may r…
The conflict that began a week ago has broadened to include multiple states and theaters. U.S. President Donald Trump publicly encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces based in Iraqi Kurdistan to consider attacks across the Iran border, while Azerbaijan said it would respond after being struck by drones. Israel reported a broad campaign against infrastruc…
Attorneys for a Nashville Noticias reporter have filed an emergency petition in federal court alleging that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested their client without a warrant. The journalist, identified as Estefany Maria Rodriguez Flores, was taken to an ICE detention facility and remains in custody, the filing says. Federal authoriti…
U.S. military investigators have provisionally concluded that U.S. forces were likely responsible for a strike on a girls' school in Minab, southern Iran, that killed scores of children, two U.S. officials said. The probe remains incomplete and officials said new evidence could change the assessment. Iranian officials report heavy casualties and ar…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that three Australian defence members were on a United States submarine that fired the torpedo which sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. He said the Australians were present as part of training tied to the AUKUS partnership and did not participate in the attack. Sri Lankan authorities recovered the…
Jamaica's foreign ministry has announced the country will end its medical cooperation program with Cuba after the two governments failed to reach agreement on a new arrangement, local media reported. Approximately 300 Cuban medical professionals are working on the island, and they will be permitted to remain until their scheduled tenures conclude. …
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday reaffirmed that American military goals in Iran have not broadened, following comments by President Donald Trump about U.S. involvement in selecting Iran's next leader. The Pentagon has described Operation Epic Fury as aimed at destroying Iran's offensive missiles, missile production capabilities and …
The U.S. State Department announced that the United States and interim Venezuelan authorities have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations. The statement said the move is intended to support stability, economic recovery and political reconciliation while helping create conditions for a phased, peaceful transition to a democraticall…
U.S. and Israeli forces launched an expansive military operation against Iran on Saturday that, according to multiple statements, resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In brief public remarks, the U.S. President framed the strikes around five principal objectives: preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, containing…
Syria has reactivated an air corridor linking Aleppo with the Mediterranean to provide a secure flight path for arrivals and departures at Aleppo International Airport. The Civil Aviation Authority said the corridor will be open to any airline that meets international safety standards, and officials have also reopened northern routes toward Turkey …
On March 5, a federal judge in Los Angeles declined to grant a preliminary injunction sought by Elon Musk’s AI company xAI that would have suspended enforcement of California’s law requiring generative AI firms to disclose summaries of datasets used to train their models. Judge Jesus Bernal ruled xAI had not demonstrated it was likely to succeed on…
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has offered Ukrainian assistance to the United States to counter Iranian-designed Shahed drones striking U.S. targets in the Middle East. Kyiv plans to send specialists and defensive means following a U.S. request, with Ukrainian teams expected to begin operations in the coming days. The move comes amid concerns that a…
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the president has authority to suspend admissions under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) indefinitely. The decision largely reverses injunctions issued by a federal judge in Seattle that had blocked the administration’s halt on refugee admissions, while upholding lim…
Summary: The United States and Qatar are engaged in early-stage government discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones and related counter-drone technologies to help shoot down Iranian Shahed attack drones amid the conflict in the Gulf. Officials have explored systems that detect incoming unmanned aerial vehicles and jam thei…
The U.S. State Department said it is increasing charter flight and ground transportation support to Americans in the Middle East after criticism over the initial response to the conflict that began when strikes on Saturday were followed by Iranian retaliatory actions. Widespread airspace closures have disrupted commercial routes and left many U.S. …
U.S. President Donald Trump again publicly urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon, saying Netanyahu should be focused solely on the conflict with Iran. Herzog's office said the pardon request will not be addressed while Israel is at war and that the president will consider the case according to law,…
A coalition of 24 states, led largely by Democrats and including New York, California and Oregon, will sue the U.S. government to halt President Trump's newly announced 10% global tariffs. The states contend the administration cannot evade a recent Supreme Court decision that invalidated much of the president's earlier tariffs by invoking a differe…
