Cuba scrambled Tuesday to restore power after a nationwide blackout that hit the communist-run island just as US President Donald Trump proclaimed he will "take" it over.
Attacks on oil infrastructure in the Gulf region and soaring oil prices are raising the spectre of a new oil crisis, although economists say we’re not quite there just yet.
Britain's Josh Kerr is "frustrated" by the six-figure sum owed to him by US athletics great Michael Johnson's failed Grand Slam Track project but still believes those behind it are "good people" who got themselves in a "horrible situation".
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Economy
Oil prices rose again Tuesday as Iran launched fresh attacks on crude-producing neighbours, while stock markets were higher ahead of key central bank meetings.
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RECENT NEWS
Coordinated blasts by suspected suicide bombers tore through a busy market and other areas in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, in one of the worst recent attacks on the capital of Borno state.
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RECENT NEWS
When Israeli and US strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the start of the Middle East war, Iran's security chief Ali Larijani became even more powerful than he had been for decades.
March 17, 2026
Israel said Tuesday it had killed Iran's powerful national security chief, Ali Larijani, in what would be a huge blow to the Islamic republic as fresh strikes rocked the Middle East from Tehran to Baghdad.
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Tens of millions of Indonesians are travelling by motorcycle, car, plane or boat to their hometowns in an annual exodus for the Eid holiday that begins in the world's largest Muslim-majority country on Wednesday.
March 17, 2026
Politics
Israel carried out new strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs and again ordered residents of vast parts of southern Lebanon to evacuate, as more than a million people have been displaced across the country.
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Devon Conway blasted a half-century before New Zealand skittled South Africa cheaply to win the second Twenty20 international by 68 runs Tuesday and level the five-match series 1-1.
Thousands of followers of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, worked with electric fervour on a recent morning preparing iftar meals for breaking the Ramadan fast, even though they themselves were not fasting.
The Afghan government on Tuesday said that about 400 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the capital, Kabul, in the deadliest attack in the recent violence between the two neighbours.
A ballet about the life of legendary Soviet-born dancer Rudolf Nureyev that was banned in Russia for containing "gay propaganda" will get a new lease of life in Berlin this week.
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Politics
Loud explosions shook Tehran Tuesday after a night of bombing, as US President Donald Trump pressed allies to help in the war that has engulfed the Middle East and sparked global economic turmoil.
March 17, 2026
RECENT NEWS
Malaysia's 2027 Asian Cup hopes are over after the country was hit with 3-0 forfeits in two qualifiers for fielding ineligible players, the regional football body said Tuesday, sending Vietnam through instead.
Rescue workers scrambled to recover bodies and survivors on Tuesday from a drug treatment centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after it was hit by a Pakistani airstrike, with the Taliban authorities saying hundreds of people were feared killed.
Azmat Ali Momand had just finished his rounds, checking patients at the "Camp Omid" drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when the explosion erupted.
A Brussels court is to decide Tuesday whether a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat should stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba.
March 17, 2026
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- Kabul drug rehab clinic in ruins after Pakistan strikes on Afghanistan
- Israel strikes Tehran, Beirut as Iraq pulled deeper into Mideast war
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- Iran 'negotiating' with FIFA over moving World Cup games to Mexico: embassy
- Gavaskar condemns Indian-owned franchise for signing Pakistan bowler
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