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Iran will determine when the war ends, says Revolutionary Guard spokesperson

Iranian fired drones towards Saudi Arabia and Kuwait early on March 10, as the war in the West Asia shows no sign of abating

10 Mar 2026 1:12 pm
Iran launches new attacks at Gulf Arab countries as it keeps up pressure on region

Iran has also been targeting energy infrastructure which, combined with its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, has sent oil prices soaring

10 Mar 2026 1:05 pm
Direct vote count concludes in Nepal; RSP eyes majority government with 125 seats

The counting of votes under the Proportional Representation system is still under way and is expected to conclude by the night of March 10, Nepal EC said

10 Mar 2026 12:44 pm
Watch: Iran womens soccer team players granted visas in Australia amid safety fears

Australia has granted visas to five members of Irans womens national football team after they sought asylum during the AFC Womens Asian Cup

10 Mar 2026 11:36 am
Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount

Trump bought more than $500,000 of Netflixs bonds in two transactions on December 12 and December 16 and another more than $600,000 across two more trades on January 2 and 20, the disclosures show

10 Mar 2026 11:28 am
Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices amid panic buying

The price revision comes as global crude oil prices crossed $100 per barrel for the first time in four years

10 Mar 2026 11:23 am
Amid wave of kids online safety laws, age-checking tech comes of age

Three months after Australia launched a landmark ban on teen social media accounts, regulators across Europe, in Brazil and in a handful of U.S. states are moving to emulate it

10 Mar 2026 9:51 am
Donald Trump says Iran war could be over soon, but oil disruption would trigger harsher U.S. strikes

The war has choked off major supplies of oil and gas to world markets and sent fuel prices rising across the U.S.

10 Mar 2026 9:03 am
Family sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over school shooting in Canada

OpenAI has said it considered but did not alert police about the activities of the person who months later committed one of Canada's worst school shootings in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 10.

10 Mar 2026 8:03 am
U.S. designates Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention, accuses it of hostage diplomacy

Iran was given an identical designation, one day before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against the Islamic Republic

10 Mar 2026 7:48 am
Israel-Iran war LIVE: Trump says U.S. to hit Iran much harder if it stopped oil flow in Strait of Hormuz

Donald Trump said that the war against Iran may be short-lived despite the country's selection of a new hard-line supreme leader to oversee the fight for the Islamic theocracy's survival

10 Mar 2026 6:45 am
Israel-Iran war: Trump says war will end 'very soon'; U.S. saving some most important targets for later

The U.S. President played down the scale of the conflict, which has not been approved by the U.S. Congress, repeatedly calling it an excursion rather than a war

10 Mar 2026 5:27 am
At least seven labourers killed in wall collapse in Gurugram; rescue operations under way

The incident occurred during work on a sewage treatment plant at a society

10 Mar 2026 2:48 am
Australia to grant visa to five Iranian women soccer players after Trump appeal

The team is in Australia for the Asian Cup tournament

10 Mar 2026 1:57 am
Watch: How Iran is fighting back against U.S. and Israel

One week into the escalating war between Iran, the United States, and Israel, Tehran has intensified its response through missile strikes, regional alliances, and strategic pressure across the West Asia. With tensions rising and no immediate ceasefire in sight, the first week of fighting has already reshaped security calculations across the West Asia, raising fears that the conflict could expand into a wider regional war.

10 Mar 2026 1:43 am
Trump says war against Iran is 'very complete: report

On Irans new Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, the U.S. President told CBS News: I have no message for him

10 Mar 2026 1:13 am
How the war in Iran threatens to spill over

History demonstrates that democracy, human rights and the rule of law have not yet been introduced into a region by the business end of a cruise missile

10 Mar 2026 12:56 am
PM Modi speaks to Nepal leaders Rabi Lamichhane, Balendra Shah

The PM congratulated the Rastriya Swatantra Party leaders on their election victory and conveyed India's commitment to work with them for mutual prosperity, progress and well-being of the two countries

10 Mar 2026 12:00 am
Mobilisation for a column on denotifiedtribesin Census forms picks up pace

Associations of denotified, nomadic, and semi-nomadic tribes in north India form a central action committee; community leaders demand meeting with Census officers

9 Mar 2026 11:20 pm
Investigation further suggests it was U.S. that struck Iranian school, killing 165

It comes as mounting evidence points to U.S. culpability for the Feb. 28 strike, which hit a school adjacent to a Revolutionary Guard base in Minab, Iran

9 Mar 2026 10:40 pm
Merzs party stumbles into a year of German state elections with a narrow defeat

Chancellor Friedrich Merzs party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent candidate powered the environmentalist Greens to a come-from-behind victory

9 Mar 2026 10:27 pm
U.S. military announces death of seventh service member in Iran war

It did not provide further details about the circumstances of the attack and said the service member's identity was being withheld until 24 hours after notification of the person's family

9 Mar 2026 10:18 pm
India will not raise petrol prices despite global crude headwinds: Government sources

The minimum gap for booking a domestic LPG refill has been increased to 25 days from the current 21 days, a move aimed at preventing hoarding and ensuring equitable distribution of cylinders

9 Mar 2026 9:56 pm
Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo supply chain risk designation

Anthropic said it sought to restrict its technology from being used for two high-level usages: mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons

9 Mar 2026 9:55 pm
New York Police investigate explosives thrown near Mamdanis residence as ISIS-related terrorism

Police are working with federal prosecutors and the FBI, which has assigned agents with the bureaus Joint Terrorism Task Force to the investigation

9 Mar 2026 9:02 pm
Starmer speaks to Trump after criticism of U.K.s response to Iran strikes

Donald Trump took to social media to dismiss Starmers plan to send aircraft carriers to the region as an attempt to join wars already won

9 Mar 2026 8:02 pm
Lebanon postpones parliamentary elections by two years

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during U.S.-Israeli strikes

9 Mar 2026 8:00 pm
Zelenskyy says 11 countries asked Ukraine for drone help against Iran

Ukraine touts itself as having world-class drone defence capabilities, built up through fending off nightly barrages of Iran-style attack drones launched by Russia, an ally of Tehran

9 Mar 2026 7:47 pm
Iran wars effects already a reality in Europe: EU chief

Oil prices soared on March 9, peaking just short of $120 a barrel as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran continued into a second week, with Tehran launching fresh retaliatory strikes in the Gulf

9 Mar 2026 6:45 pm
Eminent historian K.N. Panikkar passes away

A distinguished historian of modern India and a prominent defender of secular and critical historiography, K.N. Panikkar leaves behind a legacy that shaped generations of students, scholars and public discourse on history, culture and politics

9 Mar 2026 4:24 pm
Telangana DCA introduces SMS system to alert pharmacies about substandard medicines

The system is expected to help withdraw such medicines from market before they reach a larger patient population, as per Telangana DCA

9 Mar 2026 4:23 pm
Watch: From clerics son to Irans supreme leader: The story of Mojtaba Khamenei

Mojtaba Khamenei has been named Irans new Supreme Leader following the death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a reported U.S.Israeli airstrike

9 Mar 2026 3:16 pm
Vietnam mulls over removing fuel duties as West Asia conflict hits supplies

Vietnams Ministry of Finance said it had drafted a decree that would slash import tax rates to zero on some petroleum products

9 Mar 2026 1:12 pm
Oil and Iran-U.S. war: Key takeaways in graphics

As the Iran-U.S. war extended past its first week, Brent crude oil reached a two-year high of $114 per barrel on the Chicago mercantile exchange. How can oil production and exports be affected in the war? Here are graphics to explain.

9 Mar 2026 1:07 pm
Bahrain's state oil company declares force majeure on its shipments after Iran attack

The state-run Bahrain News Agency carried the announcement of the force majeure, a legal manoeuvre that releases a company from its contractual obligations because of extraordinary circumstances

9 Mar 2026 12:08 pm
G7 to discuss joint release of emergency oil reserves, say reports

The report comes as oil prices surged more than 25% on Monday (March 9) to their highest levels since mid-2022

9 Mar 2026 12:05 pm
Two accused in Bangladeshs political leader Osman Hadis murder arrested by Bengal STF: Official

They were trying to take shelter in the border area of Bongaon with the intention of crossing back into Bangladesh when the opportunity arises, the statement said

9 Mar 2026 11:18 am
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of using white phosphorus in new Lebanon attacks

Israel should immediately halt this practice and states providing Israel with weapons, including white phosphorus munitions, should immediately suspend military assistance and arms sales and push Israel to stop firing such munitions in residential areas, Lebanon researcher at HRW said

9 Mar 2026 10:19 am
No Indian fatality in projectile incident in Saudi Arabia: Embassy

The Embassy added that an Indian national injured in the incident on Sunday (March 8) is undergoing treatment at a government hospital

9 Mar 2026 9:56 am
Fake AI satellite imagery spurs US-Iran war disinformation

The satellite image posted by an Iranian news outlet looked real: a devastated US base in Qatar. But it was an AI-generated fake

9 Mar 2026 9:04 am
U.S. orders embassy staff to leave Saudi Arabia due to Iran war

The State Department said in a travel advisory it had ordered non-emergency U.S. Government employees and U.S. Government employee family members to leave Saudi Arabia due to safety risks

9 Mar 2026 7:12 am
Israel-Iran war LIVE: Iran fires first missiles at Israel after choosing Mojtaba Khamenei as next supreme leader

Stock markets in South Korea and Japan fell sharply in early trade on Monday after oil prices soared above $100 per barrel for the first time in almost four years

9 Mar 2026 6:52 am
New York City police identify device outside Zohran Mamdani's home as explosive

No immediate indication the incident was related to the U.S. attack on Iran; New York police working with the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice

9 Mar 2026 6:50 am
Building at Glasgow central station collapses in fire; causes train disruption

Dozens of train services have been cancelled, and National Rail said the railway station will be closed until further notice; the fire started in a vape shop close to the station on March 8

9 Mar 2026 6:46 am
Iran names Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as new supreme leader: state media

It said that the clerical body did not hesitate for a minute in choosing a new leader, despite the brutal aggression of the criminal America and the evil Zionist regime

9 Mar 2026 3:34 am