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OSLO, March 18 (Reuters) – The stepson of Norway’s crown prince should be sentenced to seven years and seven months in prison on charges of raping four women as well as domestic abuse and other crimes, the prosecutor in the trial told an Oslo court on Wednesday. Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, who joined the royal …
COPENHAGEN, March 18 (Reuters) – The wealth tax on which Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is campaigning ahead of a March 24 election may appear modest: a 0.5% levy set at such a high threshold that barely 20,000 Danes – one in 300 residents – will pay it. But if the intent was to trigger …
By Camillus Eboh and Hamza Ibrahim ABUJA, March 18 (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed on Tuesday in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state, authorities and police said on Wednesday, exposing the fragility of peace pacts with gunmen with the second most deadly attack in a month. Katsina and neighbouring states have pursued amnesty deals …
DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) – Since February 28, U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have killed several senior political and military figures, hitting the core of the Islamic Republic’s leadership in a war that has spread across the Middle East, disrupting energy markets and shipping routes. The attacks, launched in the midst of nuclear talks between Washington …
WARSAW, March 18 (Reuters) – A Warsaw court decided on Wednesday that Russian archaeologist Alexander B. should be extradited to Ukraine, where he is accused of involvement in unauthorised excavation and plundering historical artefacts in Crimea, his lawyer said. Poland’s decision to arrest the archaeologist at Ukraine’s request in December provoked a furious reaction from …
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. senators get a chance on Wednesday to question top aides to President Donald Trump in public about national security nearly three weeks into the Iran war as the Senate intelligence committee holds its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the United States. The hearing is likely to focus on …
BEIJING, March 18 (Reuters) – China will continue mediating to push for a ceasefire and an end to fighting in the Middle East, its foreign minister said, adding the war should never have happened and had no reason to continue, according to a foreign ministry statement. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks on Wednesday …
By Helen Coster and Nathan Layne NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his allies are attacking news organizations for their coverage of the Iran war, a conflict the administration says is going well for the United States but is unpopular with the public and has plunged the Middle East into chaos. …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, March 18, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Getting the shingles vaccine can be an insurance policy for better health among people who develop heart disease, a new study says. Heart disease patients who got a shingles jab have nearly half the rate of heart attacks, strokes and other serious heart emergencies …
MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday condemned what it called “the murder” of Iran’s leaders in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, a day after Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency confirmed that Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been killed in Tehran. “We unequivocally condemn any actions aimed …