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The war in the Middle East has left global investors grappling with the impact of a drawn-out regional conflict on global energy supplies and its potential to stoke inflation around the world. Global stock markets have been sinking and oil and gas prices have soared since Monday, the first day of trading after US and

Skip next section Meta blocks Kashmir news pages March 4, 2026 Meta blocks Kashmir news pages Several prominent regional news outlets in India-administered Kashmir reported that their accounts had been taken down by Meta, which operates platforms including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The move, which has sparked condemnation from Kashmir's political parties, came as large-scale pro-Khamenei

As the Iran war spreads, old sectarian rivalries of the kind that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war two decades ago seem to be making a worrying comeback, locals say.  You can see it on Iraqi social media, and you can feel it in the street, Wissam Yassin, a digital marketer based in the

Skip next section 'You can't play Russian roulette with destiny of millions,' Spain's Sanchez tells Trump March 4, 2026 'You can't play Russian roulette with destiny of millions,' Spain's Sanchez tells Trump Sanchez said he was firmly opposed to 'assuming that the world can only solve its problems with bombs' [FILE: December 2025]Image: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu/picture

Prosecutors in Cuba on Tuesday charged six Cuban nationals with "crimes of terrorism" and accused them of entering Cuba with a US-flagged boat packed with weapons to stir unrest in the country. Their boat was intercepted by Cuba's coast guard as it entered Cuban waters last week, resulting in a shootout. Four of the Cuban nationals

Britain has announced that will stop issuing student visas to people from Afghanistan, ​Cameroon, Myanmarand Sudan. It will also suspend skilled work visas ​to people from Afghanistan, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The Home Office said the move was an attempt to clamp down on asylum seekers who enter Britain through legal routes. "An 'emergency

The father of a boy charged with shooting dead four people at a high school in the US state of Georgia was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday. Jurors took less than two hours to convict Colin G., 55, over the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta.

Emmanuel Macron arrived to the highly-secretive nuclear submarine base where he would give his speech in a manner perfectly choreographed for the weighty remarks he was about to deliver: accompanied by a squadron of nuclear-capable Rafale jets. "To be free one must be feared," Macron said, "and to be feared one must be powerful." France's president has

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Pakistan said its military posts along the border came under attack by Afghan Taliban forces on Tuesday, sparking renewed clashes that killed 67 Afghan troops and one Pakistani soldier. Afghanistan rejected that account as "baseless." The Taliban government in Kabul instead said its forces had successfully repelled attacks from Pakistan and killed four Pakistani soldiers.  Fighting