Demonstrators outside City Hall in Los Angeles on March 2 protest against the U.S. and Israel's attack on Iran. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly . The war in Iran continues with no clear end in sight.
Iranian tanker docking at the platform of the oil facility in the Kharg Island, on the shore of the Persian Gulf. The island is responsible for 90% of Iran's oil exports, making it a lifeline for its economy. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images The U.S.
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has won the presidential election in the Republic of Congo, according to provisional results. The 82-year-old leader garnered nearly 95% of the vote, Interior Minister Raymond Zephirin Mboulou announced on state television. The results, pending Constitutional Court certification, grant Nguesso a fifth consecutive term.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has responded to takeover threats from Donald Trump, saying that the US would face "unbreakable resistance" if it tried to seize the country.
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The sums invested in different countries around the world by oil-rich Gulf states are astronomical. Sovereign wealth funds belonging to countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and other Gulf countries manage around $5 trillion (€4.35 trillion) worth of investments.
Iran's supreme national security council confirmed the death of its chief, Ali Larijani, on Tuesday evening. Israel said earlier that it had killed Larijani in an airstrike. Larijani was the most senior Iranian figure killed since Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died in an Israeli strike on February 28.
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Senegal were sensationally stripped of their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title on Tuesday night and tournament hosts Morocco crowned champions instead, two months after African football's showpiece event concluded with a chaotic final in Rabat.
Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), resigned from his post Tuesday, citing President Donald Trump's decision to go to war with Iran as the reason. "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.
A Brussels court on Tuesday ruled that Etienne Davignon, a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat, must stand trial over war crimes linked to the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Democratic Republic of Congo. Davignon, a former European commissioner, was among ten Belgians accused by Lumumba's family of complicity in his murder.
Eighteen days after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the first hours of the war, and eliminating other political and military leaders, it would have been safe to assume the power center of the Islamic Republic had been fatally destabilized.