BBC: Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, Madrid’s Defence Minister Margarita Robles has said. “We will not authorise the use of Morón and Rota [military bases] for any acts related to the war in Iran,” she said, adding that Spain had “made this clear to the American government […]
(Reuters) KABUL, March 30 – Heavy rain that triggered severe flooding and caused buildings to collapse has killed 22 people and injured 32 in Afghanistan over the last two days, the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday, as it warned of continued risk due to bad weather. Most of the deaths were […]
BBC: Three people, two women and a man, have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building that was being used as a church collapsed on worshippers in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on Sunday. Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak said 20 others, most of them women and children, had been rescued and were being treated in various […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, March 30 – The Israeli military said on Monday that Iran launched multiple waves of missiles at Israel, and an attack had also been launched from Yemen for only the second time since the U.S.-Israeli war began. It said two drones from Yemen were intercepted early Monday but gave no further details. Yemen’s […]
(Reuters) SINGAPORE, March 30 – The U.S. dollar held broadly steady on Monday, poised for its strongest monthly gain since July as investors fret about the ramifications of a long war in the Middle East, denting the yen past the crucial 160 level and spurring intervention jitters. Markets have been rattled this month after the conflict effectively […]
(Reuters) March 30 – Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was nominated by a lawmaker on Monday for a parliamentary vote that will select the new president of the war-torn Southeast Asian nation, as the powerful general seeks a political role. Min Aung Hlaing, who has led Myanmar’s military since 2011, was one of two people named […]
(Reuters) LONDON/NEW YORK/SINGAPORE, March 30 – The war in Iran has sparked chaos across financial markets, leaving some investors and market makers reluctant to take on risk, making trading harder and costlier – a scenario regulators watch closely. None of the world’s biggest markets, from U.S. Treasuries, to gold, to currencies have been spared, investors […]
Al Jazeera: As the United States-Israeli war on Iran entered its 30th day, key regional powers have converged on Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, in a bid to de-escalate the fighting in the Middle East, which has caused a global energy crisis. Driven by growing concerns over the fallout of the conflict, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, […]
Al Jazeera: Iran’s parliament speaker has accused the United States of plotting a ground attack despite publicly pushing for a negotiated deal, as the US deploys thousands of military personnel to the Middle East. “Our men are waiting for the arrival of the American soldiers on the ground to set them on fire and punish […]
(Reuters) CAIRO/DUBAI, March 29 – The risk of an expanded Iran war grew as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday launched their first attacks on Israel since the start of the conflict, as additional U.S. forces reached the Middle East. Washington has dispatched thousands of Marines to the Middle East in the month-old war. The first of two contingents arrived […]
BBC: In northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, a team of workers is carefully restoring a centuries-old royal kitchen that once fed the rulers of the former princely state of Awadh. Tucked within the sprawling complex of Chota Imambara – a mausoleum and congregation hall – this kitchen in Lucknow is a reminder of a different […]
BBC: Three Lebanese journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday, their employers have said. Ali Shoeib, a reporter for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV, was killed in the town of Jezzine alongside reporter Fatima Ftouni and her brother, cameraman Mohamed Ftouni, both from the channel Al Mayadeen, according to […]
