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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Under pressure from President Donald Trump, who had threatened to take the Panama Canal back under U.S. control, the Panamanian government seized two ports at either end of the canal that had been run by a Hong Kong company

Iranian Kurdish militias have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether, and how, to attack Irans security forces in the western part of the country, according to three sources

The shootout occurred on February 25 when a coast guard boat approached the vessel to demand identification, and the crew responded by opening fire.

One shipment from Gunvor will cost $28.28 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) and is expected to arrive on March 1516, while another from Vitol, priced at $23.08 per mmBtu, is due on for March 18-19, a senior Petrobangla official said.

The legal team for Hong Kong pro-democracy ex-publisher Jimmy Lai says he will not appeal the national security conviction for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison

Nepal witnessed about 60% voter turnout during the elections to the House of Representatives on Thursday the country's first polls since violent Gen Z protests that toppled the K P Sharma Oli-led coalition government last year.

Three Australian personnel were onboard American submarine that sank Iranian navy ship off Sri Lanka, Australian PM says

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Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin says he has no idea how quickly his nomination to replace Kristi Noem at the Department of Homeland Security will move

India should oppose the U.S.s attempt to widen the war to the Indian Ocean

The states are asking the court to issue an order that would block the new tariffs and order any tariff payments already made under Section 122 authority to be refunded

Assistance in countering Iranian drones will be provided only if it does not weaken Ukraine's own defences, and if it adds leverage to Kyiv's diplomatic efforts to stop Russia, the President said

The Election Commission had set up 23,112 polling centres at 10,963 polling stations across 77 districts

They call for closer communication on the issue with India as a net security provider in the region

U.S., Israel launch strikes on Iran as a pre-emptive response to an imminent threat, raising questions about the legality of the use of force under the UN Charter; missile strike on a girls primary school raises concerns over violations of International Humanitarian Law, particularly the principles of distinction, proportionality, precaution

Finland President Alexander Stubb says international politics was unpredictable, where might is right and violence have once again become a foreign policy tool of choice

For Class 12, the exam scheduled on March 7 has been postponed and the situation will be reviewed for future exams

Former U.S. Marine Sergeant Brian McGuinness was removed from a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing after interrupting proceedings to protest the ongoing U.S.Israeli military operation against Iran.

Unlike the President, the Supreme Leader doesnt have any fixed term. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has had only two Supreme Leaders Khomeini (who died in 1989) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated by a joint American-Israeli strike on February 28, 2026

No party is expected to win a majority on its own; while Balendra Shah is the frontrunner, he may need support from the older political elite who too are eyeing a comeback after the Gen Z protests

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau emphasises the U.S. commitment to its national interests while advocating for a collaborative partnership with India

Over 100 flights will depart from Dubai and return on March 5 and 6, the airlines said

India has increasingly relied on imported uranium, which currently meets nearly three-fourths of the civilian need

The Minuteman III is an intercontinental ballistic missile and forms one of the three pillars of the United States nuclear triad.

India's foreign policy, Amit Malviya added, must be guided by national interest and the safety of its citizens, not by the compulsions of Congress' outdated ideological reflexes.

This e-book explores a nation grappling with the gradual decay of its original revolutionary ideals, its Resistance Economy that is designed to survive but not thrive, and the future of the Axis of Resistance.

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