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Pakistan’s air strike on Kabul: What you need to know

Kingsley Oyong Akam17 March 2026

March 17 (Reuters) – An air strike by Pakistan on Monday that the Afghan government says killed hundreds of civilians has led to an escalation in the conflict between the South Asian neighbours. Here is a look at what happened. WHERE WAS THE ATTACK? The Afghan Taliban government says the Pakistani air strike targeted a...

Kabul says Pakistan airstrike kills 408 at rehab centre, Islamabad rejects claim

Reuters17 March 2026

KABUL, March 17 (Reuters) – More than 400 people were killed in a Pakistan air force strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, the Afghan Taliban administration said on Tuesday, in the deadliest incident since the two neighbours began fighting late last year. Pakistan rejected the statement as false and misleading, saying it had...

Fetching votes: In Paris mayor’s race, dogs dominate campaigns

Reuters17 March 2026

PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) – Paris will choose a new mayor on Sunday, with one unlikely issue dominating campaigns alongside all the partisan acrimony – dogs. Candidates from socialists to conservatives have set out policies to deal with an issue which voters have regularly ranked among their top concerns, a lack of space for the...

Congo Republic’s Sassou wins re-election with nearly 95% in tightly controlled vote

Reuters17 March 2026

BRAZZAVILLE, March 17 (Reuters) – Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected with 94.82% of the vote, state television said on Tuesday, extending his nearly 42-year rule over the Central African oil producer. Diplomats and political analysts had expected an easy victory for Sassou, 82, who faced six little‑known challengers in a race...

Cuba gradually restores power amid US oil blockade

Reuters17 March 2026

HAVANA, March 17 (Reuters) – Cuba has reconnected much of its electrical grid and brought online its largest oil-fired power plant, energy officials said on Tuesday, one day after a nationwide blackout left 10 million people in the dark amid a U.S. move to choke off the island’s fuel supply. U.S. President Donald Trump escalated...

Iran rejects de-escalation as Israel kills Iranian security chief

Reuters17 March 2026

DUBAI/JERUSALEM, March 17 (Reuters) – Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani was killed by Israel, Tehran confirmed on Tuesday, the most senior figure targeted since the U.S.-Israeli war’s first day, while a senior Iranian official said Iran’s new supreme leader rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediary countries. Larijani was widely viewed as one of Iran’s most...

Suspected suicide bomb attacks kill at least 23 in Nigeria’s Maiduguri

Reuters17 March 2026

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 17 (Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed and 108 injured on Monday night in suspected multiple suicide bomb attacks in Maiduguri city, the capital of Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeastern state of Borno, police and the military said. The attack in the heart of Maiduguri – the most fortified city in Borno,...

Exclusive-EU foreign policy chief Kallas calls on US, Israel to end Iran war

Reuters17 March 2026

BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called on the United States and Israel on Tuesday to end their war with Iran and said the EU was consulting with governments in the Middle East about how to bring the conflict to a conclusion. In an interview with Reuters in Brussels,...

Police Respond to Suspected Suicide Bombings in Maiduguri: 23 Killed, 108 Injured

Ogunjobi Michael Odunayo17 March 2026

The Borno State Police Command has responded to multiple suspected suicide bombings that struck three locations in Maiduguri on March 16, 2026, raising fresh security concerns in the northeastern Nigerian city. According to police spokesperson Nahum Kenneth Daso, the command immediately deployed its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit to conduct clearance operations at the affected...

Iranian families weep as war dead are buried in Tehran cemetery

Reuters16 March 2026

TEHRAN, March 16 (Reuters) – As gravediggers prepared new burial plots for those killed in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, Marzia Rezaei wept for her son Erfan Shamei, who died in a blast at a military training camp days before he was due home on leave. The war that began on February 28 with a...

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