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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine are holding a news conference on the war with Iran on Tuesday as an Iranian drone hit a Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai and the average gas price in the U.S. hit $4 a gallon. “The Kuwaiti giant crude oil tanker was subjected …
TAIPEI, March 31 (Reuters) – Taiwan should look at what happened to Hong Kong and not be naive about China’s intentions, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis said on Tuesday during a visit by U.S. lawmakers to discuss stalled defence spending. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s proposed $40 billion in extra defence spending, which has been backed by …
PRAGUE, March 31 (Reuters) – A foreign national has turned himself in to Czech police, admitting that he threw petrol bombs at the building of a Russian culture centre in Prague last week, police said on Tuesday. Police did not further identify the suspect detained on Monday. “It is a foreigner who, according to his …
March 31 (Reuters) – A federal panel will meet on Tuesday to consider exempting oil and gas drillers operating in the Gulf of Mexico from a decades-old law meant to protect endangered species including whales, birds and sea turtles. The meeting of the Endangered Species Committee for the first time in more than 30 years …
By Raghed Waked and Thomas Suen BEIRUT, March 31 (Reuters) – A month ago, Nariman al-Issa’s life was like any 12-year-old’s: she played with toys and rode her bicycle in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Her childhood was turned upside down when an Israeli strike killed her parents and siblings and destroyed their home. Now the young …
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s inflation rate rose to 2.5% in March, according to official figures released Tuesday, as the Iran war sent fuel prices sharply higher. Energy prices increased 4.9% percent in March compared to a 3.1% decline in February, Eurostat figures showed. The war’s impact on prices has already hit home at the …
JERUSALEM, March 31 (Reuters) – Israel will establish a buffer zone inside southern Lebanon and maintain control over the entire area up to the Litani River once the conflict with Hezbollah militants ends, Israel’s defence minister said on Tuesday. “At the end of the operation, the IDF would control the area up to the Litani …
NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) – Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility’s procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters. The crash at the New York airport at about 11:37 p.m. ET on …
By Gram Slattery, Humeyra Pamuk and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is organizing an international summit focused on countering the left-wing movement antifa and other groups, three sources familiar with the matter said, an effort that highlights the shift in the U.S. government’s counterterrorism priorities over the past year. The …
Indian police have arrested a man for smuggling alcohol into the capital Delhi using camels, seizing two animals and a large consignment of liquor. The camels were used to carry the alcohol through “forest routes” from the neighboring city of Faridabad in Haryana state across state lines into the sprawling megacity of Delhi — where …