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Baye Fall followers load food for iftar meals into a truck in Touba, Senegal on March 1, 2026

With thousands of followers

During Ramadan, Senegal's Baye Fall community lives to serve

Argentina's President Javier Milei has ordered an exit from the UN health organization WHO, following the lead of his ally US President Donald Trump

Argentina withdraws from World Health Organization

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said the investigation into building cost overruns was meant to intimidate the independent central bank

Weak economic data

US Fed expected to keep rates steady as Iran war impact looms

Bomb scare targets 12 Belgian schools on Monday

The ants were displayed in a bucket in court

Lucrative trade

Two men in Kenyan court for ant-smuggling

Havana, a city of 1.7 million people, during a blackout in on March 16, 2026

After nationwide blackout

Cuba scrambles to restore power as Trump threatens takeover

Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned to protest the US-Israel war on Iran

Letter to Trump

Senior US counterterrorism official resigns to protest Iran war

Gazans are preparing for Eid, despite the shortages and uncertainty they face

In shadow of Iran war, Gazans prepare for Eid

Youssef Assaf was killed by and Israeli strike while volunteering for the Lebanese Red Cross

38 healthcare workers killed

Southern Lebanon paramedics risk deadly Israeli strikes to do their work

Deighton's working-class, sardonic spies were seen as antidotes to debonair agents like James Bond

Ipcress File author dies

Len Deighton, spy novelist who created the anti-Bond

The mayor says she has a huge fear of heights

'Prepared to do anything'

Swing vote: Rotterdam mayor in abseil bid for higher turnout

The Persian Gulf hosts the world's second-largest population of dugongs, herbivorous marine mammals listed as vulnerable, with an estimated 5,000 to 7,500 individuals

War threatens Gulf's dugongs, turtles and birds

Germany's economy minister says petrol prices in the country have risen above the European average

Germany targets oil firms to prevent wartime price gouging

Afghan health authorities estimated at least 3,000 patients were at the rehab clinic at the time of the attack

Crowds gathered

Afghan govt says 'around 400' killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul rehab clinic

People walk past a glass wall displaying animal characters from Netflix series "Kpop Demon Hunters" at a bakery in Seoul on March 17, 2026

Double Oscar's win

'East meets West': KPop Demon Hunters brings global fans to Seoul's sites

Performers take part in the opening ceremony of the 33rd Southeast Asian Games

'Third-party software'

Thai eSports players sentenced over SEA Games cheating scandal

(FILES) Iran's security chief Ali Larijani attends a ceremony by the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah marking the first anniversary of Israel's assassination of their longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27, 2025.

Huge blow to Islamic republic

Israel says killed Iran national security chief Larijani

Wéinst engem Streik goufen all Passagéier-Flich e Mëttwoch annuléiert.

Four flights between Luxembourg and Berlin cancelled on Wednesday due to strike

Some 140 million Indonesians are travelling for the Eid holidays

Kicks off extended holiday

Millions of Indonesians in Eid travel exodus

Manhunt underway

Two shot dead in Hesse bistro in Germany, suspect on the run

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov left Russia in 2022 and now lives in exile in Germany

Russian ballet banned for 'gay propaganda' gets new life in Berlin

An Iranian woman walks through the destroyed kitchen in a home following a military strike in the Iranian capital Tehran on March 15, 2026

Wave of attacks

Strikes shake Tehran as Trump presses allies to help in Mideast war

Rescuers picked through the rubble of the clinic in Kabul to search for survivors

'The room collapsed'

'Many dead': Wounded survivor escaped Kabul clinic strike

Patrice Lumumba became Congolese leader when the country gained independence but was assassinated a short while later

One-time EU commisioner

Belgian court decides on holding trial over 1961 Congo leader murder

Israel has undertaken ground operations inside Lebanon

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Tricycle drivers queue in Manila on Tuesday for a fuel subsidy meant to offset the soaring cost of petrol

Temporary relief

Cash handouts, fare hikes as Philippines battles soaring fuel costs

Latin America's largest city has long battled high rates of crime, and the Smart Sampa AI tech was introduced in 2024 to scan the streets and compare images to those in judicial databases

Keeping live tally of criminals

Sao Paulo AI policing nabs criminals, and a few innocents

Rosersberg is one of eight prisons preparing to house young offenders starting July 1

Sweden's prisons prepare to house young teens

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