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Ali Larijani the philosopher who seeks vengeance

Ali Larijani, Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council came of age during the tremulous years of pre-revolutionary Iran

7 Mar 2026 6:42 pm
Donald Trump vows Iran will be hit very hard

Iran is the loser of the Middle East, and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Mr. Trump said after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier apologised to Irans Gulf neighbours

7 Mar 2026 6:16 pm
Sri Lanka to treat Iranian sailors according to international law'

Asked if Colombo was under pressure from the U.S. to not repatriate the Iranians, Mr. Herath did not answer directly

7 Mar 2026 4:14 pm
Bangladesh voted against radical Islamists; has hopes for Tarique Rahman: Taslima Nasrin

The BNP, led by Tarique Rahman, won a decisive mandate in February 2026, winning 209 of the 298 seats; its allies picked up another three seats, giving the block a clear majority in the 299-member Jatiya Sansad

7 Mar 2026 3:41 pm
15 terrorists killed in two separate operations in Pakistan's Balochistan

During the conduct of the operation, the troops effectively engaged the 'Khawarij' hideout, the Army said, adding that after an intense engagement, 12 terrorists were killed

7 Mar 2026 3:40 pm
Approached from a point of humanity, Jaishankar on why India let Iran warship dock in Kochi

Jaishankar, flagging social media debates over the incident, called for people to understand the reality of the Indian Ocean

7 Mar 2026 3:38 pm
Iran President apologises for strikeson neighbouring countries, says attacks caused by miscommunication

The Iran President said that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a dream that they should take to their grave

7 Mar 2026 2:50 pm
Hong Kong firm seeks $2 billion over Panama's takeover of 2 key canal ports

Panama's government last week seized control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports on each end of the Panama Canal, a crucial waterway for maritime trade

7 Mar 2026 2:47 pm
U.S. Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts

Gavin Kliger, in social media posts between October 2024 and January 2025, has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate

7 Mar 2026 2:43 pm
Russian President Putin calls for immediate halt to Iran conflict

President Putin said he was in constant contact with the leaders of Gulf Cooperation Council member states

7 Mar 2026 1:59 pm
Ukraine says Russian strikes kill at least six

The bodies of five people were found in the rubble of an attack on an apartment block in the Kharkiv region, while one person was killed in the Dnipro region

7 Mar 2026 12:40 pm
Israel-Iran conflict: Explosion over Dubai airport, witness says

Dubai Media Office described a minor incident resulting from the fall of debris after an interception in a post on X, but also denied reports circulating about the airport in the same post

7 Mar 2026 12:14 pm
Four dead, at least 12 injured after tornadoes hit Michigan: U.S. media

The Branch County Sheriffs Office said a tornado near Union City in the southern part of the state killed three people and left 12 injured, according to multiple media outlets

7 Mar 2026 11:53 am
Former rapper Balendra Shahs Rastriya Swatantra Party heading towards landslide victory in Nepal

The election is being closely watched by India, which hopes for a stable government in the politically fragile Himalayan nation to take forward the developmental partnership between the two sides

7 Mar 2026 11:32 am
Saudi Defence Minister warns Iran against miscalculation after attacks

Iran is pressing attacks across the Gulf, a week since U.S.-Israeli strikes against the Islamic republic triggered regional war

7 Mar 2026 11:28 am
Canadian PM supports removing Andrew from royal line of succession

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is being investigated for alleged misconduct in public office following revelations about his dealings with the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

7 Mar 2026 11:19 am
Decision on Iran strikes taken after Modi left Israel: Foreign Minister Sa'ar

We could not brief Prime Minister Modi on this because the decision was taken only on Saturday early morning, said Gideon Saar

7 Mar 2026 10:43 am
Oil prices surge as West Asia conflict rages, stocks fall on U.S. jobs

Maritime traffic has all but dried up through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the worlds crude oil and liquefied natural gas supplies run

7 Mar 2026 10:18 am
Pentagons chief tech officer says he clashed with AI company Anthropic over autonomous warfare

A top Pentagon official says a fight with Anthropic centred on how the military could someday use artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons

7 Mar 2026 10:08 am
U.S. State Department approves emergency weapons sale to Israel

In addition to the munitions, the sale will include U.S. government and contract engineering, logistics and technical support services

7 Mar 2026 9:51 am
Russia will not disclose data on its crude export to India: Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's comments came hours after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington has issued a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil

7 Mar 2026 8:55 am
Donald Trump rules out talks unless Iran surrenders unconditionally as Israel strikes Lebanon

Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter

7 Mar 2026 8:45 am
Pakistani man with ties to Iran convicted for plotting to kill U.S. President Trump, other American leaders

Asif Raza Merchant, 48, was convicted by a federal jury in a Brooklyn court on Friday (March 6) of murder for hire and attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries. Merchant faces up to life in prison.

7 Mar 2026 8:20 am
Man accused of tricking hundreds of teens into sending him pornographic images brought to U.S.

A federal grand jury indicted Amin in 2022 on charges including child pornography, cyberstalking and wire fraud.

7 Mar 2026 7:33 am
U.S. pressing Sri Lanka not to repatriate Iranian crew and survivors from sunken ship, memo says

A U.S. submarine sank the IRIS Dena warship in the Indian Ocean about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lankas southern port city of Galle on Wednesday, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washingtons pursuit of the Iranian navy.

7 Mar 2026 7:22 am
Israel-Iran war LIVE: Russia reportedly providing Iran with info to strike U.S. military; Israel continues to bomb Lebanon

Iran launched more retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries on the seventh day of the war

7 Mar 2026 7:13 am
Ghana peacekeeping battalion hit by missile attacks in Lebanon, Ghana army says

In addition to the two critically injured soldiers, Ghanas armed forces said that another soldier has been traumatised while the officers mess facility was hit and burned down

7 Mar 2026 5:04 am
Watch: Iranian warship strike near Sri Lanka raises questions for India

An Iranian warship was struck by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka, days after participating in Indias MILAN 2026 naval exercise. The incident raises major questions about Indias role in the Indian Ocean and the strategic balance between Washington and Tehran.

6 Mar 2026 11:16 pm
Boots vs Bots: Finding the fighter for the new American war

The question of who fights and who profits from wars has become an open public argument in the U.S.

6 Mar 2026 10:45 pm
Must avoid a global conflict, says Finnish President as he backs U.S. but voices concern on West Asia war

Mr. Stubb says Europe would back U.S. against Iran, but concedes U.S. and Israel are acting outside framework of international law

6 Mar 2026 10:21 pm
Irans President Pezeshkian confirms mediation efforts; IRGC warns of prolonged war

Irans Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf claimed on Friday (March 6, 2026) that Iranian attacks forced the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to retreat

6 Mar 2026 7:23 pm
Watch: Sri Lanka evacuates 208 crew from second Iranian ship

Sri Lanka is evacuating 208 crew members from an Iranian naval ship IRINS Bushehr stranded near its territorial waters, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on March 5, 2026, a day after a U.S. submarine torpedoed another Iranian warship off Sri Lankas southern coast, killing at least 84 sailors and widening the war in West Asia into the Indian Ocean region.

6 Mar 2026 6:42 pm
UN refugee agency declares major humanitarian emergency in West Asia

Israel has issued large-scale evacuation orders for southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut amid hostilities with the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah

6 Mar 2026 5:08 pm
Ukraine accuses Hungary of taking hostage bank employees who were carrying $82 million

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the employees of Oschadbank had been transporting cash from Austria back to Ukraine via Hungary when they were detained. He said their whereabouts were currently unknown

6 Mar 2026 4:02 pm
Indonesia to restrict social media access for children under 16 years: Minister

Australia introduced a ban on social media for under-16s in December, and Spain also said last month that it would ban access to social media for minors under 16

6 Mar 2026 3:49 pm
Kosovo President dissolves Parliament, calls snap election after failed presidential vote

Kosovo already held a snap election on December 28 after failing to form a government following the February 2025 poll

6 Mar 2026 2:48 pm
U.S. aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor

The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack. Today the battleship still lies where it hit bottom, with more than 900 sailors and Marines are entombed inside

6 Mar 2026 2:32 pm
PM Orban says Hungary will stop transit shipments crucial for Ukraine

Prime Minister Orban accused Kyiv of blackmail and said Hungary would use all means at its disposal until oil flows resume

6 Mar 2026 1:39 pm
Singapore announces new committee to strengthen Indian community identity

The INEI committee will be chaired by Senior Minister of State for Transport and Law Murali Pillai, as well as Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth Dinesh Vasu Dash, both of whom are of Indian origin

6 Mar 2026 1:37 pm
South Korea, U.S. militaries discuss moving Patriot missiles to Iran war, Seoul says

Cho Hyun was responding to questions at a Parliamentary hearing following media reports on March 6 that units of the U.S. mobile missile interceptor system had been moved to the Osan Air Base in South Korea from other locations in the country

6 Mar 2026 1:35 pm
Iranian Minister at Raisina Dialogue slams U.S. attack on 'unarmed' vessel returning from India

Saeed Khatibzadeh, blasting the U.S. for killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said cherry-picking of international law cannot be acceptable.

6 Mar 2026 1:14 pm
SpiceJet to operate 14 special flights from UAE on March 6

The carrier will operate 9 flights from Fujairah to Mumbai, 4 services to Delhi and 1 from Dubai to Pune, according to a statement

6 Mar 2026 1:13 pm
Ethiopia rebels committed summary executions; gang-raped women, girls: Amnesty International

Amnesty interviewed 10 survivors of sexual violence in two districts of Oromia, including seven who were minors at the time of their assaults, as well as health professionals

6 Mar 2026 1:07 pm
Justice Department publishes missing Epstein files involving uncorroborated claim about Trump

The accuser was interviewed by the FBI four times as it sought to assess her account but a summary of only one of those interviews had been included in the publicly released files

6 Mar 2026 12:51 pm
Intense Israeli strikes hit Iran, Lebanon as U.S. warns bombardment will 'surge dramatically'

Iran launched new retaliatory attacks in West Asia at the end of a full week of bombardment, which U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned was about to surge dramatically. Israel's military said on March 6 that it had begun a broad-scale wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran's capital

6 Mar 2026 12:35 pm
Japan says second citizen held in Iran

The identity of the second Japanese person held, the date as well as other details of the arrest are unclear

6 Mar 2026 12:23 pm
Australia forces porn sites to block under-18s from March 9

Some sites in Australia had already barred non-members on March 6 and were refusing new registrations, days before being obliged to use age verification technology to keep out underage users

6 Mar 2026 12:21 pm
Australian troops on board U.S. submarine that sank Iranian ship: PM Anthony Albanese

The personnel were on the submarine as part of training arrangements under AUKUS, a multi-decade defence pact with Britain and the United States, Mr. Albanese said

6 Mar 2026 11:13 am
U.S. judge to meet parties on Trump-tariff refunds in closed-door 'settlement conference'

Government lawyers have said the process for refunding President Donald Trumps signature tariffs was unprecedented in scope and would require manual review of tens of millions of tariff payments.

6 Mar 2026 11:06 am