More UN peacekeepers injured in southern Lebanon days after others killed A collapsed building at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday. The Israeli military says it has struck more than 3,500 targets across Lebanon in the last month of fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. (AFP/Getty …
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Trump fires U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
Bondi has faced criticism for her handling of the Epstein file and investigations into Trump’s critics Attorney General Pam Bondi listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 26. She was removed from her position Thursday. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) U.S. President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam …
Read More »Gaza family says toddler released from Israeli custody found with cigarette burn marks
Israeli forces reject allegations of abuse, say child was provided medical attention Eighteen-month-old Jawad Abu Nassar, seen here with his mother, Waad al-Shafi’i, was taken into Israeli custody with his father on March 19. He was released later that day to the International Committee of the Red Cross, but his …
Read More »What Trump’s prime-time TV pitch means for war on Iran
Despite claiming objectives are nearly complete, U.S. president threatens to escalate conflict U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the war against Iran from the White House on Wednesday night, during a prime-time address. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) U.S. President Donald Trump told Americans that while his objectives for the war against …
Read More »Poverty among elderly getting worse, ADB study shows
POVERTY among the elderly is getting worse, as many older Filipinos rely on fragile remittances and unpredictable family support, and lack a formal pension, Rights Report Philippines, a nonprofit rights advocate, said. Citing a July 2025 paper published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Rights Report cited the inadequacies of …
Read More »North Korea expands its nuclear arsenal after witnessing Iran’s vulnerability
Nuclear deterrent is ‘their ultimate life insurance policy,’ said former Canadian diplomat North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un observes a ground ejection test of a high-output solid-fuel engine using carbon fibre composite materials, in this picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on March 29, 2026. (KCNA via Reuters) …
Read More »Tracking deaths in Iran, wider Middle East as conflict rages on
Nearly 1,600 civilians killed in Iran alone, says activist group People mourn on Tuesday, the day of the funeral of the victims following a deadly strike on a school in Minab, Iran, on Saturday, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. (Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/West Asia News Agency/Reuters) As the Middle …
Read More »Iran’s nuclear constraints were more diplomatic than technical. Then the bombs started dropping
Nuclear scientists say risk of country building a bomb has only grown A woman looks on as residents and emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27 in Tehran. The war that past international diplomatic efforts …
Read More »U.S. strikes city home to Iranian nuclear site, Trump urges allies to help in Strait of Hormuz
Netanyahu says Israel is ‘beyond the halfway point in terms of mission success’ U.S. secretary of war joins Trump in demanding allies do more in Strait of Hormuz U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth echoed President Donald Trump in calling for U.S. allies to step up to reopen the critical …
Read More »LaGuardia air traffic control staffing might have violated procedures night of Air Canada collision
The deadly March 22 collision has raised questions about staffing shortages and combined roles The air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia airport. The NTSB is investigating whether facility procedures were being followed the night of the collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck. (Ryan Murphy/Reuters) Air …
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