Canada and Nordics focus on military procurement in ‘middle-power’ meet-upBy Gwladys Fouche and Louise Rasmussen OSLO, March 15 (Reuters) – Canada and the five Nordic countries said on Sunday they have agreed to deepen cooperation in military procurement and other areas, in the latest push by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to build new global...
March 15, 2026 — International Day to Combat Islamophobia The United Nations has warned of a concerning rise in anti-Muslim discrimination worldwide as the international community marks the International Day to Combat Islamophobia on March 15… In an interview with UN News, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the UN Special Envoy tasked with combating Islamophobia, described a...
PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) – Top U.S. and Chinese economic officials launched a new round of talks in Paris on Sunday to iron out kinks in their trade truce and clear a smooth path for U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of March. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SEOUL, March 12 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a munitions factory on Wednesday, state media KCNA reported, releasing photographs that showed him touring the facility with his teenage daughter and the pair test-firing handguns. During the visit, Kim oversaw firearms production and called for modernisation of the process, KCNA said. The...
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