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This photograph shows a firework exploding over the city hall as Marseille's incumbent mayor and broad left-wing coalition Printemps Marseillais candidate for re-election Benoit Payan (unseen) celebrates with supporters after winning the second round of France's 2026 municipal elections in a bar in Marseille, southern France on 22 March 2026.

Paris, Marseille, Lyon

France's leftists win mayoral elections in largest cities

International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol compares the current energy crisis to those of the 1970s and the impact of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine

International Energy Agency

Global economy under 'major threat' from Strait of Hormuz crisis: IEA chief

UN chief Antonio Guterres said every key climate indicator was flashing red

'State of emergency'

Planet trapped record heat in 2025: UN

Rocket trails seen in the sky above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya early on Monday

Defiant response

Israel launches new strikes on Tehran as Iran takes aim at Gulf sites

Berlin campaigned against a planned EU ban on combustion-engine cars

BMW and Mercedes-Benz at the centre

German court to rule in climate case against automakers

The outage comes as Cuba's communist government has faced growing pressure from US President Donald Trump, who imposed the de facto oil blockade in January and mused this week about "taking" the Caribbean island

US oil blockade

Cuba restores power grid after latest blackout

Travelers wait in line at a TSA security checkpoint at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas on March 20, 2026

Underpaid and understaffed

Trump orders immigration agents to airports amid crippling budget standoff

Tottenham are just one place above the Premier League relegation zone

Battle for Europe

Three talking points from the Premier League

British gold medal winners, Georgia Hunter Bell (L), Molly Caudery (C) and Keely Hodgkinson

Gold medal winners

Hodgkinson headlines Britain's 'Super Sunday' at world indoors

A woman in Kenya's Nyakach region wades through flooding triggered by torrential rain

Torrential rains in Kenya kill 81 in March: officials

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the Qasmiyeh bridge in south Lebanon on March 22, after Israel said the bridge was being used by Hezbollah

'A dangerous escalation'

Israel to advance ground operations in Lebanon after striking key bridge

Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire won in Paris, projections showed

Decisive run-offs

Leftists win mayoral elections in Paris and Marseille: projections

Site 31 was Russia's only operational launch pad for crewed missions

After November incident

Russia resumes use of space launch site damaged in accident

Ryan Gosling stars in the film as a teacher-turned-astronaut who awakes on a spaceship with a mission to save Earth from a sun-dimming phenomenon

Sci-fi adventure

'Project Hail Mary' rockets to top of N. America box office

Syrians hold a silent protest against an official decision banning the sale of alcohol outside of certain areas

New restrictions

Syrians protest alcohol sale limits, curbs on personal freedom

The sign of a Chevron gas station displays current prices as drivers pump gas in Rosemead, near Los Angeles, California in March 2026

Contradictory trajectories

US may 'escalate to de-escalate' against Iran: Treasury chief

Ilia II consistently topped opinion polls as the Black Sea nation's most trusted leader

Georgia buries Patriarch Ilia II as succession stirs fears of Russian influence

Nepali youth staged a demonstration in Kathmandu on Sunday, demanding the release of findings into the deadly September 2025 uprising

Nepali youth demand release of govt report into deadly September uprising

A voter casts their ballot during the general election in Radomlje on 22 March 2026.

Trump-ally eyeing comeback

Slovenia votes in tight polls, with conservatives eyeing comeback

The 2016 Brussels attacks saw bombings at the city's main airport and at a metro station

Thirty-two people dead

Belgium remembers Brussels jihadist attacks 10 years on

Cuba has been hit by seven nationwide blackouts since 2024

No oil imports since January

Cuba scrambles to restore power after new blackout

Idrissa Gueye waves the Senegal flag after his side beat Morocco on the field in the in the Africa Cup of Nations final in January

Extending olive branch

Senegal's Idrissa Gueye ready to 'hand back' AFCON medals

The Vietnamese prime minister's trip to Russia comes as Hanoi seeks to shore up its fuel reserves amid global supply disruptions due to the war in the Middle East

Oil and gas cooperation

Vietnam, Russia to sign energy deal: Hanoi

Israeli Orthodox Jews inspect the site of an Iranian missile strike in Arad on March 22

No reprieve in sight

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Ibrahim Noureldin leans on crutches at a makeshift shelter in the town of Tawila, Sudan

'Hallmarks of genocide'

'They beat us with whips': Sudan RSF detainees tell of horrors in El-Fasher

Chinese Premier Li Qiang seen on a big screen live broadcasting his speech at the opening of the China Development Forum

Further opening up

China's premier vows to expand global 'trade pie': state media

A sign reading 'closed' is displayed at a fuel station in Kotahena on the outskirts of Colombo

Second time in two weeks

Sri Lanka raises fuel prices by 25 percent as war bites

Women intending to march were arrested even before the event began

Beaten and detained

Rights groups fear use of arrest to stifle free speech in Pakistan

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