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ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Reuters) – Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong? On Monday night, Pakistan carried out an air strike …
READING, Mass. (AP) — Just before St. Patrick’s Day, an Irish pub appeared one night beneath a basketball hoop in a suburban Massachusetts driveway. Neighbors packed around the bar as music played and Guinness flowed — inside a tiny pub that had been towed in for the night. Instead of heading out to celebrate the …
Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, President Donald Trump and his aides are ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants. The president has fumed on social media about stories he doesn’t like and berated a reporter on Air Force One. The government’s top …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Residents of Dubai and Doha, Qatar, awoke to the sound of explosions Tuesday as air defenses worked to intercept new waves of incoming Iranian fire, and Israel launched new strikes on Iran and Lebanon, as the war in the Middle East showed no signs of abating. Dubai, a major …
LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Operation Restoring Justice to control borders. A Deportation Command. More oil, gas and nuclear energy. Patriotism in schools. Save the pubs. Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party is well ahead of the governing Labour Party and the opposition Conservatives in British opinion polls before local elections in May and a …
KABUL, March 17 (Reuters) – Ahmad, 50, watched flames engulf his friends at a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul where he was undergoing treatment, unable to save them as they cried for help after a Pakistani air strike, leaving a scene he said resembled “doomsday”. The Afghan Taliban government says at least 400 people were …
With a gut-wrenching wail that rippled from her body, Amber Walcker joined about a dozen screaming people in West Seattle who let their frustrations float away over the Puget Sound. It was just the start. The two group screams that followed, each one longer and more intense, released the pain from Walcker’s recent job loss. …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation that would require proof of U.S. citizenship for new voters has become a rallying cry for President Donald Trump, who claims that passage of the bill will “guarantee the midterms” for his Republican Party in November. The bill, which the Senate will take up as early as Tuesday, would require voters …
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the “Powerball” game were: 07-10-20-47-52, Powerball: 20, Power Play: 2 (seven, ten, twenty, forty-seven, fifty-two, Powerball: twenty, Power Play: two) Estimated jackpot: $89 million Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Photos You …
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares wavered in Asia on Tuesday after a drop in oil prices helped send the U.S. stock market to its best day since the war in Iran began. The reprieve in prices for crude was short-lived, with Brent crude climbing nearly 3% early Tuesday to $103.17 a barrel. U.S. benchmark crude also …