Explainer-What you need to know about France’s local elections

Reuters15 March 2026

PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) – France holds municipal elections on March 15 and 22, seen as a key test ahead of next year’s presidential election. The two-round ballot will measure the strength of the far-right National Rally (RN) and showcase what types of alliances could emerge in an increasingly fragmented landscape. WHY FRENCH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS...

Zelenskiy says Ukraine wants money, technology in return for Middle East drone help

Reuters15 March 2026

KYIV, March 15 (Reuters) – Ukraine wants money and technology in return for helping Middle Eastern nations defend against Iranian kamikaze drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after Kyiv sent specialists to four countries in the region. Zelenskiy told reporters in comments cleared for release on Sunday that each of the three teams sent to the...

Congo Republic votes in election expected to extend Sassou’s long rule

Reuters15 March 2026

BRAZZAVILLE, March 15 (Reuters) – Congo Republic votes on Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to extend 82-year-old Denis Sassou Nguesso’s decades-long rule by another five years, with limited active opposition and little uncertainty about the result. Two of the country’s best‑known opposition leaders remain in prison, while others are in exile. Several opposition...

New Prince Harry book a ‘deranged conspiracy’, his spokesperson says

Reuters14 March 2026

LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) – A new biography about Prince Harry which says Queen Camilla had allegedly remarked he had been brainwashed by his wife Meghan was described by his spokesperson on Saturday as a “deranged conspiracy”. Harry and Meghan have been estranged from the British royal family since stepping away from official duties in...

Death toll from Kenyan floods rises to 62, police say

Reuters14 March 2026

March 14 (Reuters) – A total of 62 people including eight children have died since heavy rains and flooding hit Kenya’s capital Nairobi and other areas late last week, police said on Saturday. The capital was the worst hit with 33 deaths, the force said in a statement on X that updated the official tally...

UAE’s Fujairah stops some oil loading operations after drone attack

Reuters14 March 2026

DUBAI, March 14 (Reuters) – Some oil-loading operations have been suspended in the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub and crude export terminal, after a drone attack and fire on Saturday, industry and trade sources said. The suspension comes hours after the U.S. attacked military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export...

Venezuela’s students reclaim the streets after years of oppression

Reuters14 March 2026

March 14 (Reuters) – In mid-February, hundreds of students from Venezuela’s most prestigious university did the once unthinkable: their protest left the campus of the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas and spilled out into a nearby street. Before the U.S. military operation that captured Nicolas Maduro on January 3, student activism was a risky...

Iran signals defiance as Trump threatens to hit Kharg Island oil network

Reuters14 March 2026

WASHINGTON/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, March 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to strike the oil infrastructure of Iran’s Kharg Island hub unless Tehran stopped attacking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a warning that could further roil markets coping with a historic supply disruption. Trump paired his Friday ultimatum with a social media post saying the...

Iran war puts many in US on high alert, but synagogue attack shows limits

Reuters14 March 2026

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials are on heightened alert as the Iran war enters its third week, but the limits of their vigilance were on display as seeming lone-wolf attacks unfolded more than 500 miles apart in Virginia and Michigan on Thursday alone. In Michigan, where a Lebanon-born gunman rammed a...

Ivory Coast welcomes ‘talking drum’, first artifact sent back from France

Reuters13 March 2026

ABIDJAN, March 13 (Reuters) – Traditional chiefs wearing crowns and gold chains gathered at Ivory Coast’s main airport on Friday to welcome the return of a “talking drum” looted more than a century ago, the first artifact returned to the West African country by former colonial power France. The drum – known as “Djidji Ayokwè”,...

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