(Reuters) LONDON, March 28 – Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of central London on Saturday for a “March to Stop the Far Right” with many demonstrators decrying the right-wing Reform UK party of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which is topping opinion polls. Backed by trade unions and civil society groups, the […]
(Reuters)་་་ March 28 – Twenty-two migrants have died off the coast of Greece after spending six days at sea in a rubber boat, the Greek coast guard said in a statement late on Friday. Twenty-six people were rescued by a Frontex European border agency vessel off the island of Crete. “During the journey, the passengers […]
NDTV; Iran kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab nation on Friday, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that U.S. officials said wounded at least 10 U.S. service members, two of them seriously. The attack on Prince Sultan Air Base also damaged several U.S. refueling aircraft, said two U.S. officials, […]
(Reuters) March 28 – The Israeli military said early on Saturday it had identified a launch of a missile from Yemen, the first time a missile has launched from Yemen since the war erupted. The launch comes hours after Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they were prepared to act if what the group called an escalation against […]
(Reuters) DUBAI/WASHINGTON/PARIS, March 27- The U.S. expects its military operations against Iran to conclude within weeks, not months, and Washington can meet all its objectives without using ground troops, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. Meanwhile, an Iranian attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia seriously wounded two U.S. military personnel and injured another […]
Nepal’s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli has been arrested over his alleged involvement in a deadly crackdown on protests last year. More than 70 people were killed, many of them protesters shot by police, during an uprising in September – which was sparked by a social media ban but fuelled by simmering anger over […]
Al Jazeera: Ukraine says it has signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia as Gulf countries continue to come under Iranian attack amid the United States and Israel’s war on Iran. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who arrived in the kingdom on Thursday, said on X that an “important arrangement” had been made ahead of a meeting […]
(Reuters) JERUSALEM, March 27 – Some are the size of small trucks, and they’ve come crashing to the ground almost daily for a month — littering school yards, roadsides and hilltops with visceral remnants of a Middle East at war. Across Israel and the occupied West Bank, massive chunks of Iranian ballistic missiles have slammed […]
BBC: The UN’s human rights chief has urged the US to conclude its investigation and publish its findings into a deadly strike on an Iranian primary school that happened on the first day of the war last month. The bombing “evoked a visceral horror,” Volker Türk said at an urgent debate in the UN Human […]
(Reuters) BEIJING, March 27 – China’s commerce ministry has initiated two counter-probes into U.S. practices that hamper the flow of Chinese products into the United States, it said on Friday, refraining from immediate retaliation to U.S. measures announced earlier this month. A trade truce between China and the U.S. has held since U.S. President Donald Trump met […]