Pakistani airstrikes cause civilian casualties in Kabul, Taliban and UN say

Reuters13 March 2026

KABUL, March 13 (Reuters) – Pakistan bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan’s airport of Kandahar, the ruling Taliban said on Friday, stepping up the neighbours’ worst conflict in years, despite China’s efforts to mediate. The overnight strikes also hit residential areas in Kabul, killing four people and wounding more than...

Ancient vial in Turkey shows Romans used human excrement in medicine

Reuters13 March 2026

BERGAMA, Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) – Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which they believe is the first physical evidence that the Romans used faeces medicinally. Previously, the practice of applying excrement to the skin to fight infections and inflammation was...

Trump says US will hit Iran ‘very hard’ after easing sanctions on Russian oil

Reuters13 March 2026

DUBAI/BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, March 13 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said the U.S. was going to be hitting Iran “very hard over the next week”, shortly after issuing a partial 30-day waiver for purchases of sanctioned Russian oil, hoping to ease prices fuelled by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Prices have been whipsawing on Trump’s changing comments...

Unarmed at the Firefight: How Daniel Bwala Walked Into Mehdi Hasan’s Studio and Left Nigeria Trending

Josephine Bukunmi Esho13 March 2026

The set of Al Jazeera’s Head to Head is not built for comfort. It is built for reckoning. The studio lights are clinical. The audience is global. And Mehdi Hasan, the programme’s razor-edged anchor, does not arrive with soft questions. He arrives with documents. The episode aired on March 6, 2026. Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser...

Suspect shot dead after crashing truck into Detroit-area synagogue

Reuters13 March 2026

By Rebecca Cook and Steve Gorman WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, March 12 (Reuters) – A suspect crashed his truck into the hallway of a Detroit-area synagogue where children were attending preschool on Thursday and was shot dead in a confrontation with security personnel, with no one else seriously injured, authorities said. The attack unfolded during a...

Iran’s new supreme leader vows to keep Hormuz shut, Netanyahu issues threat

Reuters13 March 2026

By Parisa Hafezi and Maya Gebeily DUBAI/BEIRUT, March 12 (Reuters) – Iran will fight on and keep the Strait of Hormuz shut as leverage against the United States and Israel, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday in defiant first comments attributed to him since he succeeded his slain father. Hours later, Israeli Prime...

World faces largest-ever oil supply disruption on Middle East war, IEA says

Reuters12 March 2026

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – The war in the Middle East is creating the biggest oil supply disruption in history, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, a day after it agreed to release a record volume from strategic stockpiles to offset shortages and a spike in prices. Global supply is expected to drop by...

Kenya arrests man trying to smuggle over 2,000 live ants in his luggage

Reuters12 March 2026

NAIROBI, March 12 (Reuters) – A man was arrested with more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage at Nairobi’s main airport this week amid a rise in cases of smuggling of the insects in Kenya. Chinese national Zhang Kequn, 27, was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Tuesday while he was trying...

Factbox-Opposition candidates in Congo Republic’s presidential election

Reuters12 March 2026

DAKAR, March 11 (Reuters) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, the 82-year-old president of Republic of Congo, is seeking another five-year term in an election on March 15, aiming to extend his more than four decades in office in the oil-rich Central African nation. A former paratrooper, Sassou seized power in 1979 and has governed almost continuously...

Iran’s supreme leader, in first remarks, vows to avenge martyrs, keep strait closed

Reuters12 March 2026

DUBAI/HEBRON, Kentucky, March 12 (Reuters) – Iran will avenge the blood of its martyrs, keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and attack U.S. bases, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday in a statement read out on state television, his first remarks since succeeding his slain father. In the defiant address, Khamenei said the...

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