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Orban has sought to portray opposition leader Magyar as a 'puppet' of Brussels and Kyiv

Hungary pre-election showdown draws crowds amid foreign interference claims

The members of Iran's women's football team who did not claim asylum in Australia arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 11, 2026

'Returning to the embrace of the homeland'

Iran says women's football captain withdraws Australia asylum bid

Handout photo from the Royal Thai Navy shows smoke rising from a Thai bulk carrier near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack

Blockaded waterway

Strait of Hormuz forms part of front line in Mideast war

Ukraine says repairs on the pipeline could take up to six weeks

Zelensky: EU pressure to open Russian oil pipeline is 'blackmail'

France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, a candidate on the broad right-wing list "Generations Vernon", grabs ballots during the first round of France's 2026 municipal elections in Vernon, northwestern France, on March 15, 2026.

Municipal elections

France picks mayors in test of political mood ahead of 2027 polls

Winner Mercedes' Italian driver Kimi Antonelli (C), second-placed Mercedes' British driver George Russell (L) and third-placed Ferrari's British driver Lewis Hamilton (R) celebrate on the poidum after the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai on March 15, 2026.

'I'm speechless'

Emotional Antonelli wins maiden grand prix with Mercedes 1-2 in China

Israeli security works to put out a fire caused by a rocket strike in Holon, Israel

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Organisers say the country music festival, the biggest of its kind in the UK, has drawn around 45,000 people

'I like stomping my heels'

Cowboy boots and line dancing: country music fever grips UK young

Ethnic minority citizens cast their votes inside a polling station in the northern Vietnamese province of Tuyen Quang

One-party Vietnam holds parliamentary election

Experts say that war harms the climate and pollutes the air, water and soil.

The environment, another casualty of war in the Mideast

The race is looking tight in Paris between Rachida Dati and Emmanuel Gregoire

Municipal elections on Sunday

French right-wing ex-minister vies for Paris city hall

Palestinian Milia Hamayel begged her son Thaer not to go try to fight off an attack by Israeli settlers on their West Bank village

'A golden opportunity'

Deadly Israeli settler violence surges in West Bank during Iran war

Dubai has not been spared the fighting

Safeguarding reputation

'Dubai is safe': UAE pushes to contain fallout from Iran onslaught

A training exercise of North Korean Army's 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers, at an undisclosed location in North Korea

'Very deadly yet attractive weapon'

North Korea conducts test of nuclear-capable rocket launchers

The US-Israel war on Iran has seen energy infrastructure damaged across the Middle East, sending shockwaves through global markets

Decision expected on Wednesday

US Fed expected to hold rates steady as Iran war roils outlook

'Sinners' leads the Oscar nominations with 16

98th Academy Awards

Oscar nominees in main categories

Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix says people are growing tired of seeing data centers multiply in their communities

Ahead of midterm election season

US mayors push back against data center boom as AI backlash grows

Racks of GPUs (graphics processing units) with a closed-loop liquid cooling system inside an operational Microsoft data centre

'Malfunction and hallucination' protection

Who covers AI business blunders? Some insurers cautiously step up

The Middle East war has unleashed a deluge of AI-generated visuals on X

Researchers wary of enforceability

AI fakes about Iran-US war swirl on X despite policy crackdown

Polling stations opened in Vietnam, AFP journalists saw Sunday, as voters began casting their ballots for members of the National Assembly of the one-party state

One-party state

Polls open in Vietnam legislative election: AFP

A woman holds a picture of Iran's new supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as she takes part in a rally in Tehran on March 13, 2026

Trump seeks global backing to secure vital Gulf oil route

The members of Iran's women's football team who did not claim asylum in Australia arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 11, 2026

After being branded 'traitors'

Three Iranian football team members leave asylum in Australia

Max Dowman, 16, became the Premier League's youngest ever goalscorer

Dowman makes history as Arsenal strike late, Man City held by West Ham

Australian Oscar Piastri won last year's Bahrain Grand Prix

Originally scheduled in April

F1 races in Bahrain, Saudi cancelled due to Iran war

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One as he departs Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on March 13, 2026

Critical chokepoint

Trump says other countries 'must take care' of Hormuz

In second place at the Razzies came Disney's live-action remake of 'Snow White' which was mired in controversies years before its disappointing release

Anti-Hollywood awards

'Snow White,' 'War of the Worlds' top Razzies

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

'Showy gesture'

Iran envoy says Ukraine support to US, Gulf is a 'joke'

While Iraqis have grown accustomed to war over the decades this has not diminished anxiety about a wider conflict

Chaotic danger zone

'Normal, but not really': Iraqis try to carry on as missiles fly

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