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Sri Lanka on Wednesday (March 4, 2026) said it had recovered over 80 bodies of Iranian sailors killed after a U.S. submarine attack sank the Iranian frigate - IRIS Dena - off Galle, the island's southern coastal town

The official reaction from Tehran comes a day after a U.S. submarine attacked Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which sank in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lankas southern coast

Nepal election is being held two years ahead of schedule because of the two-day Gen Z protests.

Tehran has warned of the destruction of West Asia's military and economic infrastructure, and the war has rattled financial markets

The letter is the first significant support Anthropic has received from the tech industry, a group of companies that includes its investors, suppliers and customers

To develop and use AI, the main players in the sector use data centres, whose chips and servers consume a lot of electricity

With a global population of 30 to 45 million people, they are one of the significant stateless ethnic group.

Asim Munir visited Wana in South Waziristan district along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where he reviewed the prevailing security situation and operational preparedness

OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, Amazon and others, announced a deal late last week to deploy its technology in the Pentagons classified network

China's economy grew by 5% last year to $20.01 trillion, riding high on the robust exports despite U.S. tariffs, while domestic consumption, its bugbear, remained sluggish.

The voting started at 7 a.m. and will conclude at 5 p.m.; the counting will start immediately after the ballot boxes are collected

The protester, Brian C. McGinnis of North Carolina, was arrested and faces three counts of assaulting a police officer and three counts of resisting arrest and unlawful demonstration, said the Capitol Police

UAE, where Iranian missiles have landed targeting U.S. bases, is the second largest source of Indias inward remittances and also a large hub for Indian migrant workers engaged in blue-collar jobs

Mark Carney spoke in the nations capital on the third day of an official visit to Australia, a trip aimed at bringing in investment and deepening ties with a fellow middle power partner

Israel says it is working to intercept Iranian missiles; Iran postpones funeral for Khamenei, say reports

Here is a select list of stories to start the day

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier this week showed that only one in four Americans approves of U.S. strikes on Iran that have plunged the West Asia into chaos, while about half including one in four Republicans believe Mr. Trump is too willing to use military force.

The war powers resolution gave lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out; the vote forced them to take a stand on a war shaping the fate of U.S. military members, countless other lives and the future of the region.

Researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and hazard assessments, calculating that about 90% of them underestimated baseline coastal water heights by an average of 30 cm, according to a study in the journal Nature

Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the subpoena proposed by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina in a sign of continued frustration with the department's review and release of a tranche of documents regarding the disgraced financier

We are facing aggression... our choice is to confront it until the ultimate sacrifice, and we will not surrender, said Hezbollah

We will not be complicit in something that is harmful to the world and contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of retaliation, Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after Trump had lashed out at Sanchez's government, calling Spain a errible ally

While the Trinamool Congress under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee used SIR as an electoral opportunity and used the harassment of people to target the ECI and BJP led government at the Centre, the West Bengal BJP leadership appears to be disappointed with the outcome of the exercise as deletions in the electoral roll are far less than what they had wished for.

The March 5 election is expected to restore constitutional order and bring the democratic process back on track

A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, marking the first torpedo sinking of an enemy ship since World War Two, according to U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The tanker, carrying 61,000 tons of LNG, completely sank between Libya and Malta, a statement said

Nepal is heading to the polls on March 5, 2026 a landmark election triggered two years early by a youth-led uprising that brought down the government, killed 77 people, and set an entire country on a new course.

Acting Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari said the percentage of invalid ballots was expected to be minimal due to extensive voter education programmes carried out across the country by the Election Commission

The U.S. strike triggered a distress call and the Sri Lankan armed forces launched a search and rescue operation

A joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have plunged West Asia into a fastspreading war, with Tehran and its allies launching retaliatory strikes across Israel, the Gulf and U.S. bases.

Under the rules, the new parliament must meet within 15 days of certification; it will elect a speaker and deputy speaker and will then choose a Prime Minister, who will move to form a government

The U.K. said it will deploy a Royal Navy warship to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster security around its Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Akrotiri in Cyprus

Japanese firms such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toshiba and IHI could be potentially involved

Without mentioning U.S. President Donald Trump by name, Foreign Ministry spokesperson alluded to his call for Iranians to take power from the clerical leadership

It's not clear how Mr. Trump would cut off trade with Spain, a European Union member. The EU negotiates trade on behalf of all its 27 members

The NDSC warned businesses and individuals not to hoard fuel for resale at inflated prices, saying that violators would be prosecuted

Most of the people we had in mind are dead, the U.S. President said in an exchange in the Oval Office

The votes in Congress this week represented potentially consequential markers of just where lawmakers stand on the war as they look ahead to midterm elections and the consequences of the conflict

On this day (March 3) in 1923, the first issue of Time magazine was published.A quiz on Americas first newsweekly.

The US military commander in the Middle East says American forces have struck nearly 2,000 targets so far in Iran as part of the largest firepower buildup in the region in a generation

With global energy prices already on the rise over the expanding war, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it has complete control of the Strait of Hormuz

Herath said two Sri Lankan navy vessels and an aircraft were deployed for the rescue operation, but did not say what caused the Iranian warship to sink

Israel targetted a building on Tuesday (March 3, 2026) associated with Iran's Assembly of Experts, which will select the new supreme leader