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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people …
HELSINKI, March 19 (Reuters) – Heavy social media usage appears to contribute to a drop in wellbeing among young people, especially girls, in some English-speaking countries, the World Happiness Report published on Thursday found. Already, a number of countries across the world are working on plans to curb children’s social media access after Australia in …
LONDON (AP) — Until the U.S. and Israel started bombing Iran less than three weeks ago, it was viewed as a near certainty that the Bank of England would cut interest rates again on Thursday. Now it’s a near-certainty that it will leave its base rate unchanged at 3.75%. The start of the Iran war …
2m ago Stocks slide and oil prices spike as Israeli strike hits “plumbing of the global energy system” Stock prices were down early Thursday and oil prices rose sharply as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran escalated. Israel’s Wednesday strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field, which is shared with Qatar, and President Trump’s threat to …
ROME, March 19 (Reuters) – A forthcoming Italian referendum on judicial reform will test right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s political strength and could give the fragmented opposition the impetus to forge a broad alliance ahead of next year’s general election. Italians will vote on March 22-23 on a proposal to separate the careers of judges …
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — There’s happiness, and then there’s Venezuelan happiness. It feels sweeter. Louder. Deeper. Maybe because it doesn’t arrive as often. Or because it has been repressed by security forces and self-censored to avoid jail. Or because it seems collectively and individually unattainable. But the nation felt it Wednesday. Its people cried, yelled, …
HELSINKI (AP) — Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday. The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, also …
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The first oil and gas lease sale held in years in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska was touted by officials Wednesday as the strongest to date, drawing hundreds of bids and interest from major oil companies despite pending legal challenges from environmentalists and some Indigenous groups. It was the first sale in …
March 19 (Reuters) – Russian drones struck several apartment buildings in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa, triggering fires and injuring at least three people, local officials said early on Thursday. “There has been damage to two high-rise apartment buildings, another residence in the city’s historic centre as well as private homes,” Serhiy Lysak, head …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the former counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials with doubts about the airstrikes “were not allowed” to share them with President Donald Trump. Speaking on Tucker Carlson’s show, Kent said the president relied on a small …