UPDATE: Although opposition channel IranIntl reported that the Assembly of Experts had elected Mojtaba Khamenei to be the next Supreme Leader, we have as yet found no confirmation that his selection has been formalized. The New York Times on Wednesday quotes three unnamed
Launched at a landmark event in India recently, homegrown firm Sarvam AI claims its new 105-billion-parameter model can rival China’s DeepSeek at a fraction of the computational cost. CNA tests how it stacks up against global peers.
Launched at a landmark event in India recently, homegrown firm Sarvam AI claims its new 105-billion-parameter model can rival China’s DeepSeek at a fraction of the computational cost. CNA tests how it stacks up against global peers.
PARIS, March 3 - President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said France was sending its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Mediterranean and working to build a coalition that would help secure maritime traffic imperiled by the escalating crisis in the Middle East.
WASHINGTON/MADRID, March 3 - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States would cut off all trade with Spain after the European country refused to let the U.S. military use its bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran.
Most of Iran’s air defenses have been neutralized in key areas. On March 2, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine announced that local air superiority had been established over western Iran and Tehran. The IDF reported on March 2 that it has successfully targeted
WASHINGTON, March 3 - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. military had been successful against many Iranian naval and air targets, saying \"just about everything has been knocked out.\"
This article was originally published on Jonathan Larsen’s Substack. A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to
Mr Wang Yi has not spoken to his US counterpart since the launch of the US-Israeli attack.
BEIJING, March 3 - China opposes the military strikes launched by Israel and the U.S. against Iran and demands an immediate cessation of hostilities, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar on Tuesday, according to his ministry.
LONDON, March 3 - British rapper Ghetts was jailed for 12 years on Tuesday for killing a Nepali student in a hit-and-run while driving dangerously and over the drink-drive limit.
The day Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, the Iranian government called for 40 days of public mourning in line with Shiite tradition. It also praised the supreme leader for his martyrdom – a concept considered sacred and significant in the Islamic Republic and Shiite Islam.
DAKAR/KINSHASA, March 2 - The U.S. has made progress in its push to prise Congo's strategic minerals from China's orbit, but conflict, contested licences and compliance demands are still slowing Washington's advance into a region its rival dominates, diplomats and industry
Washington’s allies in the Persian Gulf have found themselves in a position they have long sought to avoid: on the front line and bearing the brunt of a widening Middle East conflict. Having been dragged into a war of choice by the US – one which many around the world are
International aid to Afghanistan has fallen sharply since 2021.
JERUSALEM, March 3 - Israel's military on Tuesday reported strikes in the Tel Aviv area of Israel from Iranian missiles.
Flights to Doha remain suspended until March 7 as the airline assesses situation in the Middle East.
DUBAI, March 3 - Iranian airstrikes on Gulf states could push them into a broad coalition aligned with the United States and widen the war against Iran, Middle East analysts said, after attacks on ports, cities and oil facilities in a vital energy-producing region.
LONDON, March 3 - Foreign minister Yvette Cooper said on Tuesday that Britain was working with airlines on increasing capacity out of Muscat, Oman to prioritise the evacuation of vulnerable British nationals.
GENEVA, March 3 - The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday urged what it called the forces behind a deadly attack on a girls' school in Iran to investigate and share insights into the incident, without saying who it believed was responsible.
GENEVA, March 3 - At least 30,000 displaced people have sought protection in shelters in Lebanon since hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah escalated this week, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, while many more were expected to join them.
In several recent instances, AI has disrupted court proceedings in India and elsewhere.
MOSCOW, March 3 - The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran is under threat as a result of the escalating conflict, the head of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday, according to the RIA state news agency.
LONDON, March 3 - Britain has yet to decide whether it will send a warship to defend its Royal Air Force Akrotiri base in Cyprus, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday after the Times newspaper reported ministers had discussed such a deployment.
About 40 per cent of US navy ships ready for operations are currently stationed around the Middle East.
ANKARA, March 3 - Turkey is engaging with all parties to find a way to end the war in Iran and return to negotiations, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, adding that Ankara was also in talks with Oman on the matter as the Gulf nation works for the same goal.
MOSCOW, March 3 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow had still seen no evidence that Iran was developing nuclear weapons as the U.S. and Israel pursue their attack.
VIENNA, March 3 - Entrances to Iran's underground and previously bombed uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz have been struck as part of the U.S.-Israeli military attacks on the country, the U.N. nuclear watchdog confirmed on Tuesday.
ANKARA, March 3 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said work was underway with the United States to lift sanctions imposed on Ankara before the U.S. midterm elections in November, but added Israel was opposed to the potential move.
The helicopter was carrying five people when it went down in a grassy area of a residential district in Pililla, a small town in Rizal province.
From data centres in the sky to commercial space travel, ambitions once seen as distant are becoming part of the country’s broader economic strategy.
One of the passages refers to behind-the-scenes events from the 2020 India–China border stand-off.
Yusei Kajiwara was visiting a client’s home when he allegedly commited the crime.
The conflict in the Middle East has rattled energy markets and driven up prices for crude and gas.
March 3 - A fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm commercial port was hit on Tuesday when the facility came under attack from several unmanned aircraft, the state news agency said, citing a security source, on the fourth day of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, which has responded by targeting
Tel Aviv, March 3 - The Israeli military has prepared for a campaign against Iran that could last several weeks but is unlikely to see the deployment of ground forces, a military spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday.
The escalating crisis tests China’s Gulf partnerships, oil security and ties with the United States, yet analysts say Beijing is more likely to recalibrate its language than its policy.
US President Donald Trump has summed up his rationale for attacking Iran fairly simply, saying, “This was our last best chance to strike.” Not known for adhering to any particular lasting strategy, Trump sees each day in the White House as an episode in a reality show in which
TEL AVIV, March 3 - The Israeli military deployed additional forces to southern Lebanon overnight, to take up what a military spokesperson on Tuesday described as defensive positions to protect Israeli civilians and strategic sites from any potential Hezbollah attack.
But as artificial intelligence tools become more sophisticated and widespread, experts warn of potential risks like deepfakes.
Authorities gave no explanation for the ousters but they come as purges of military top brass pick up pace.
The alleged plan involved using the media, publishing legal analyses questioning government measures, influencing parliamentary questions, and using the influence of international bankers to question the prime minister’s motives, the premier told Parliament.
DUBAI, March 3 - The U.S. on Tuesday ordered non-emergency government personnel and their family members to leave Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan and closed several diplomatic missions across the region as tensions with Iran escalated.
Beneath the waves of the Pacific, China is quietly building a layered undersea warfare system designed not just to contest US submarines, but to secure its nuclear deterrent and reshape the region’s strategic balance. In testimony before the US-China Economic and Security
PARIS, March 3 - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot held a call on Monday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to discuss the Iran war and both agreed to work on de-escalation, Barrot's office said in a statement.
The quake rattled residents but caused no serious damage.
He said it is too early to decide on the need for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into allegations.
People argue back and forth about when artificial superintelligence will arrive. The truth is that it’s already here. Go back a hundred years, and the popular notion of “intelligence” would probably include things like calculating speed and memorization. Then we invented
