This group is actually listed by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization—also listed by Iran and Turkey. It's akin to the PKK, or the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which operates in Iraq and Syria. We have to be very cautious about dealing with groups like this.
The scale of what is at stake cannot be overstated. Oil companies can likely absorb a one- to two-week slowdown. A full or near-full closure lasting a month or more would require demand destruction at levels that could push crude well into triple digits and European natural gas prices toward or above the crisis levels seen in 2022.
Youth-led protests under a loose gen-Z banner began as a demonstration against a brief social media ban, but were fed by wider grievances at corruption and a woeful economy. Nearly 19 million voters will choose who replaces the interim government in place since the September 2025 uprising, in which at least 77 people were killed, and parliament and scores of government buildings were torched.
Citizens can voluntarily surrender illegal weapons without penalty in exchange for cash payments under the buyback scheme, Pundari said. The government did not specify how much it will pay for illegal weapons but said it will vary from province to province. In some cases, it may include cash incentives and support provided to people who wish to start agriculture businesses.
Cuban state media outlet Cubadebate said the blackout was caused by a fault at the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, located about 100km (62 miles) east of Havana, which cut electricity from Pinar del Rio in the far west of the country to the eastern Las Tunas province. In all, two-thirds of the country, including Havana, were left without power, according to the national electric company UNE, which said it was working to restore services.
We reviewed the intelligence, prevention, and operational deployment protocols that will be implemented during this international event," Federal Security Secretary Omar GarcĂa Harfuch said on his social media accounts, addressing the security measures being put in place for the World Cup matches scheduled across Mexico.
A landslide triggered by heavy rains has killed more than 200 people at the Rubaya coltan mine in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorities said. DRC's Ministry of Mines said on Wednesday that about 70 children were among the victims, and others who were injured were evacuated to medical facilities in the city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
Living in Tehran today is like living in a city under siege, seemingly abandoned by its inhabitants. Ambulances speed through the practically deserted streets. Fear pervades everything, and people live in a state of constant tension, punctuated by the drone of fighter jets, the wail of air raid sirens, and nearby explosions.
If prices stayed where they were at the moment, probably we're talking about an impact on the level of prices in the UK maybe of 1% or so. However, he said it was important to note the increases were "nowhere near as large" as those seen after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago.
Shipping through the strait of Hormuz typically a vital artery of the world economy, with about a fifth of oil supplies and seaborne gas tankers passing through it has largely ground to a halt.
Our government says it wants to stop people from making dangerous and often deadly Channel crossings to seek sanctuary. But its approach is doing exactly the opposite. This government has already put family reunion applications on hold, now it wants to ban a small number of people from leaving conflict zones to continue their education and then claim asylum instead of being sent back into danger.
On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in a flight suit, stood before a banner reading Mission Accomplished, and declared that major combat operations in Iraq were over. But the mission had not been accomplished. The war would continue for another eight years, cost nearly 4,500 American lives, and reshape the Middle East in ways no one in that administration anticipated or fully acknowledged.
Emirates: The airline has suspended flights to and from Dubai until 11:59 p.m. UAE time on March 4, due to airspace closures across the region. Limited repatriation flights and freighter flights are departing from Dubai airspace.
A video posted on X March 1 showed a large, fiery explosion. 'THIS IS TEL AVIV. THANK YOU IRAN!' its caption read. However, this video was taken in 2015, when a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, exploded twice, killing at least 50 people and injuring hundreds more.
It was clear for weeks that the UK did not want to become part of any initial attack by the US and Israel on Iran, judging it to be illegal under international law, because Tehran posed no imminent threat to the UK.
