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Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with US counterpart Donald Trump by phone shortly after a video call with Russia's Vladimir Putin

Tensions over Middle East

Trump asks China to delay Xi summit as Iran war rages

Israel has undertaken ground operations inside Lebanon

Israel president says Europe should back fight against Hezbollah as troops operate in Lebanon

Israel's President Isaac Herzog gives an interview at his residence in Jerusalem

Following start of ground offensive

Israel president tells AFP Europe should back efforts to 'eradicate' Hezbollah

Iran has virtually blocked oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and on Monday major oil fields in Iraq and the United Arab Emirates were hit

Equities rise on oil easing, with focus on Iran war and central banks

Nvidia's chief Jensen Huang calls OpenClaw 'the operating system for personal AI'

Taken tech world by storm

Nvidia rides 'claw' craze with AI agent platform

Notorious Latin American narco trafficker Marset has finally been arrested in Bolivia after eluding police for years

Uruguayan national

Alleged narco trafficker makes first US court appearance

Suad Jallad's son Shadi was killed earlier this week by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese border village of Ain Ebel, and was comforted by the Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon Paolo Borgia

Still affected by war

South Lebanon's Christian towns insist they are not part of Israel-Hezbollah war

A tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for oil

Securing the Strait of Hormuz: Tactics and threats

Iranian ambassador Ali Bahreini said Tehran would not submit to coercion or intimidation

Citizens in 'grave danger' from US, Israeli strikes

Iran, at UN, insists will not submit to 'lawless aggression'

This aerial photo taken on March 15, 2026 shows the wreck of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier Arctic Metagaz, which is adrift near Malta

Adrift in Mediterranean

Damaged Russian tanker has 700 tonnes of fuel on board: Moscow

The new IPI body was recommended in a G20 report authored by US economist Joseph Stiglitz

Extreme wealth disparities

Talks towards international panel to tackle 'inequality emergency' begin at UN

US President Donald Trump has urged greater enthusiasm from allies about potential involvement in a military mission to protect shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz

"Strongly encourage"

Trump pushes for 'enthusiasm' from allies to secure Hormuz

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ruled out a NATO mission but said allies were working towards a 'viable' plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Berlin insists 'not NATO's war'

Western allies push back on Trump call for NATO help to reopen Hormuz

EU Energy Council

'Europe needs to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels', says Lex Delles

EU energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen has urged EU governments to lower taxes and levies on energy where possible

Calls for reform

EU talks energy as oil price soars

Joseph Stiglitz told AFP the United States was at high risk of falling into stagflation

Already close before war erupted

Stagflation risk in US 'quite high': Nobel-winning economist Stiglitz

Switzerland is in the Schengen open-borders zone

Arguing it would harm relations with EU

Swiss government rejects proposal to limit immigration

The black particles from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres away look unremarkable, but they hold components of life

Samples contained 'nucleobases' for DNA and RNA

Ingredients of life discovered in Ryugu asteroid samples

Kyiv downgraded diplomatic relations with Iran after it supplied Shahed drones to Moscow

Anti-jamming capabilities

Why Iranian drones are hard to stop

Pavel Talankin's film -- based on hours of footage he had smuggled out of Russia -- beat the odds and took home an Oscar

Anti-Kremlin film

'Hollywood story': Russia's Mr Nobody makes history with Oscar win

Penn has been a vocal advocate for Ukraine

Vocal advocate for Ukraine

Oscar-winner Sean Penn skips ceremony to visit Kyiv

Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire and right-wing ex-minister Rachida Dati both want to run Paris

Race for Paris mayor on knife's edge after first round

Motorists wait in a queue to refuel their vehicles at a petrol station in Vientiane on March 16, 2026

Shortages deepened

Hours-long fuel queues in Laos capital Vientiane

France's ecological transition minister Monique Barbut said the European Union should take a firmer stance against climate inaction and favour a 'more transactional' approach in negotiations with emerging economies

If it does not up its game

France threatens to block funds for India over climate inaction

Drivers queue to refuel rickshaws at a fuel station on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital, as the war's economic impact mounts worldwide

Middle East war: global economic fallout

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was last year found guilty of seeking to acquire funding from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya for the campaign that saw him elected

Appeal trial opens for France's Sarkozy over alleged Libyan funding

A man gestures as supporters of Yemen's Huthi rebels take part in the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Sanaa on March 13, 2026. Yemen's Houthi rebels on March 9, welcomed Iran's ruling clerics appointing their slain leader's son as the country's new supreme leader, calling it a major blow for the Islamic republic's enemies as it fights a war with the United States and Israel.

Complex situation

Will Yemen's Houthis join the Mideast war?

A laser-based system from Israeli defense group Rafael at a London arms fair in September 2025

Advantages but also limitations

Rise of drone warfare sharpens focus on laser defense

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