Europe and Japan ready to help stabilise energy prices and secure oil chokepoint

Reuters19 March 2026

DOHA/RIYADH, March 19 (Reuters) – Leading nations in Europe, with Japan, said on Thursday they would act to stabilise energy markets and join “appropriate efforts” to open the Gulf’s oil chokepoint after after tit-for-tat strikes on energy plants dramatically escalated the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Major economies have been scrambling to cushion the impact of...

Iranian cluster missiles pose extra challenge for Israel’s air defences

Reuters19 March 2026

TEL AVIV – Iran has launched dozens of missiles with cluster munition warheads at Israel since the start of the war, posing a challenge for Israel’s missile defence shield as they need to be hit before they split and disperse into smaller explosives. Israel failed to intercept one of the cluster missiles overnight, and its...

Exclusive-US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase

Reuters19 March 2026

WASHINGTON, President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter. The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as...

US civil rights leader Dolores Huerta accuses Cesar Chavez of sexual assault

The Credibility News19 March 2026

Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez and fought alongside him to advance U.S. labor rights, on Wednesday accused Chavez of sexually assaulting her in the 1960s. Huerta said in a statement that she was sharing her story in light of a multi-year New York Times investigation,...

In Lebanon, war dictates pace of Ramadan for displaced families

Reuters18 March 2026

BEIRUT, March 18 (Reuters) – Near the tent she now calls home, Salam Issa Rida dropped pieces of marinated chicken into a pan sizzling atop a camping stove. Her family had been craving chicken to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. So she had risked her life to get it. Earlier...

Trump and his allies use familiar tactic to help Iran war messaging: attacking the press

Reuters18 March 2026

By Helen Coster and Nathan Layne NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his allies are attacking news organizations for their coverage of the Iran war, a conflict the administration says is going well for the United States but is unpopular with the public and has plunged the Middle East into chaos....

Top Republican calls out Trump’s Homeland nominee over inflammatory rhetoric

Reuters18 March 2026

U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Homeland Security secretary, tesifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci

Iran’s government degraded but appears intact, top US spy says

Reuters18 March 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, Acting National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. William Hartman and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque.

Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a ‘moral imperative’

Reuters18 March 2026

VATICAN CITY, March 18 (Reuters) – Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a “moral imperative” that people have access to the health services they need. Previous popes have called for countries to offer universal healthcare, but calling an issue a “moral imperative” is an...

Top US security official quits, says Iran did not pose immediate threat

Reuters18 March 2026

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – A top security official in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration resigned over the war in Iran on Tuesday, saying the country had posed no imminent threat to the United States. Joe Kent, who headed the National Counterterrorism Center, is the first senior official in Trump’s administration to resign over the...

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