HAZMIEH, Lebanon, March 8 - Just days ago, Hussain Khrais was proudly showing off his newly restored home in south Lebanon, fixed up after being badly damaged in 2024 clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. But a new war has since erupted and his home is in the line of fire again.
Companies are finding it difficult to secure long-term financing.
The tugboat was struck by two missiles while attempting to provide assistance to a Malta-flagged container ship.
The authorities advised visitors to refrain from engaging in any water activities until further notice.
Police said they had moved more than a thousand people across the state into shelter.
The attack on Dena was the first military strike far outside the Middle East.
Tensions between the East Asian neighbours have simmered since Japanese PM Takaichi's comments on Taiwan in November 2025.
He was in Tokyo to watch a baseball game between Taiwan and the Czech Republic on March 7.
They say government measures do little to alleviate financial stress.
Wang Yi has signalled that Beijing is open to strike a deal with Washington at an upcoming summit.
“(China does not) subscribe to the logic of major power co-governance,” said Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a Sunday (Mar 8) press conference during the Two Sessions.
Balendra Shah emerged as a leading figure in the 2025 uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli.
The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work. The authors build a thoughtful exposure measure, draw on real usage data, apply a clean difference-in-differences framework and find limited
On ties with America, he says China's attitude always been “positive and open”.
At a press conference on Sunday (Mar 8), Wang Yi also renewed China’s call for an immediate ceasefire and said Beijing is ready to work with Middle Eastern countries to restore order in the region.
Multiple searches in the southern Indian Ocean have all proved fruitless.
Thursday's general election was the first since violent youth-led protests toppled the government in September.
A strong fist does not mean strong reason, Mr Wang Yi said.
US President Donald Trump targeted Iran, expecting a short, decisive military operation reminiscent of the US recent raids on Venezuela. Yet seven days into “Operation Epic Fury,” the conflict’s intensity, geographic spread, human costs and economic repercussions reveal a stark
SYDNEY, March 8 - Australia's government said on Sunday it was considering requests to help protect countries attacked by Iran in the widening Middle East conflict, but reiterated it would not take part in any military operations in Iran.
The press conference at the Two Sessions comes at a time of heightened global tensions, with an escalating Iran war.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia will consider a request by Gulf states for assistance.
Band Baaja Bitiya is the moving tale of a father who goes to rescue his daughter from her matrimonial home.
In super-organised Singapore, disputes over public space are a battle between control and chaos.
The premier is facing multiple challenges that may force him to call early elections, nearly two years ahead of the February 2028 deadline, say analysts and insiders.
The building blocks of the technology industry are deeply dependent on petroleum flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion.
DUBAI, March 7 - The president of the United Arab Emirates said his nation was in a time of war but was well and told his enemies it was no easy prey, in his first public comments since Iran launched missiles at its Gulf neighbour amid U.S.-Israeli strikes.
A report that US President Donald Trump is more bullish in private about putting American soldiers on the ground in Iran than he has been publicly stirred immediate condemnation among lawmakers opposed to the illegal military attack, now entering its second week of destructive
Delegates at the ongoing Chinese parliamentary meetings have offered suggestions to help raise the fertility rate.
A record 12.7 million university graduates are expected to enter the country's workforce in 2026.
VATICAN CITY, March 7 - Pope Leo on Saturday named a senior Church diplomat who represented the Vatican in the Philippines during former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs as the Vatican's U.S. ambassador and envoy to the Trump administration.
His music, which has drawn millions of views online, helped him cultivate a devoted following on social media.
TEL AVIV, March 7 - Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah on Saturday warned residents of a northern Israeli city near the border with Lebanon to evacuate and head south.
Mr Xi's remarks come amid the annual meetings of the nation’s top political bodies.
SHANGHAI, March 7 - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday the military must be loyal to the Communist Party and root out corruption, according to a report by the official Xinhua news agency.
March 7 - President Donald Trump will host Latin American leaders in Florida on Saturday as his administration seeks to counter China's growing influence in the region, a diplomatic show just days after U.S. strikes on Iran opened a new front in the Middle East.
DUBAI, March 7 - Two influential and hardline Iranian clerics have called for the swift selection of a new supreme leader to help guide the nation amid a new wave of U.S. and Israeli strikes, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
India received the docking request for the Lavan on Feb 28, the day the Iran war started
The scale has become part of the attraction, and the walk itself as much a draw as the food.
Mr Shah’s party followed a carefully calibrated media strategy, with a major speech delivered every eight days.