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This lawsuit comes less than two months after President Trump said his administration was seeking $1 billion from Harvard to settle probes into school policies
Sri Lanka maintains close ties with the United States, its biggest export market, and Iran, which is a key buyer of tea, its main export commodity
The U.S-Israel war with Iran has driven up energy prices, causing concerns over inflation across the world
Another federal judge in Boston on Monday (March 16, 2026) temporarily blocked several of Mr. Kennedy's vaccine policy changes
The cause of death was not immediately clear. Alongside his brother Robert, Budi Hartono, Michael Hartono was worth an estimated $43.8 billion, according to Forbes in 2025, putting them at the top of Indonesia's rich list
UAE authorities said they had dismantled a errorist network funded and operated by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran, and arrested its members
The Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, killed 2,390 Americans, and the U.S. declared war on Japan the next day
The attack by Israel on the South Pars gas field prompted Iran to retaliate against energy infrastructure in other West Asian countries
According to the state news agency, the network was involved in money laundering, financing terrorism and threatening national security
The United States has lost multiple aircraft during the conflict including three F-15s mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti forces, and a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq but none that are known to have been hit by Iranian fire
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts a vital artery of the global economy, triggering price increases and turmoil in energy markets; as supply shocks reshape the geopolitics of energy, countries like India, the U.S., and Russia recalibrate strategies amid shifting oil flows and rising dependence
Many lawmakers have complained the trade deal is one-sided, with the EU required to cut most import duties while the U.S. sticks to a broad rate of 15%
We have always opposed the use of force in international relations. The acts of killing Iranian state leaders and attacking civilian targets are even more unacceptable, Chinas Foreign Ministry spokesman said
The leader of the Bhumjaithai Party garnered 293 votes, exceeding the required majority of the 498 members who attended the session in the House of Representatives
Izvestia said the Kremlin had confirmed the pause and that the Iran war could push Kyiv towards compromise.
Committee's lead lawyer Victor Dawes said the evidence showed that multiple factors came together to produce the disaster
It comes as the U.S. Justice Department has undertaken multiple investigations over the last year into political foes of President Donald Trump
Israel accounted for about 41% of all external attacks that ended with a child fatality, while the U.S. accounted for 21% of such attacks
The Treasury issued a broad authorization allowing Petrleos de Venezuela S.A., or PDVSA, to directly sell Venezuelan oil to U.S. companies and on global markets
Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among women and girls who say they were sexually abused by Csar Chavez, the long-admired Latino icon, while he led the United Farm Workers union
In a post on X, the FBI said Patel, also known as Kenny Patel, would be about 35 and is believed to be residing or travelling between Illinois and Pennsylvania
The militants, suspected members of Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa Province, were supported by multiple armed drones when they attacked the base in Mallam Fatori in the State of Borno
Qatar condemned in a statement the attack saying that it represents a direct threat to its national security
Pakistans Information Minister, Attaullah Tarar, said the government agreed to a halt to its operations from March 19 to March 23 in good faith and in keeping with the Islamic norms
The helicopter of Air Dynasty crashed while landing in Khotang District of Eastern Nepal while landing on a field, officials confirmed
Security officials confirmed the base is safe and the lockdown was lifted
UNIFIL faces increased risks amid Israeli-Hezbollah tensions; Mission fired on sporadically in recent months
The United Nations said in a report covering 12 months to October 31, 2025, that Israel had accelerated the annexation of large parts of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
Despite historic enmity towards Hezbollah and Tehran - both fought alongside Bashar al-Assad during Syrias 2011-24 civil war - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has moved cautiously since U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran began on February 28
As head of the National Counterterrorism Centre, Joe Kent was in charge of an agency tasked with analysing and detecting terrorist threats
We do not act according to any other power. We ourselves will do what is necessary and we will make the necessary decisions accordingly, PJAK co-chair Peyman Viyan said
Israel targeted Irans powerful national security chief Ali Larijani in an overnight strike, Israeli media reported
The freeze implicated up to $3 trillion in federal funding
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