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The head of the U.S. military’s Central Command says Iran is “operating in a sign of desperation” by targeting civilian sites in the war. In an interview with the Farsi-language Iranian opposition satellite network Iran International that aired early Monday, U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper said: “They’re operating in a sign of desperation. … In …
March 23 (Reuters) – At 8 p.m. on April 21, 2002, voters learned the shock first-round results of France’s presidential election. For the first time in the Republic’s history, a far-right candidate – Jean-Marie Le Pen – would advance to the runoff. Minutes later, Lionel Jospin addressed his supporters. The leading candidate of the left, …
LJUBLJANA, March 23 (Reuters) – Slovenia’s political parties looked set for urgent coalition talks on Monday after no clear winner emerged from an election that could sway the Alpine country’s domestic and foreign agenda. Prime Minister Robert Golob’s liberal Freedom Movement (GS) party was in a near dead heat with the right-leaning Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) …
LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) – A British man detained in Tehran urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday to “step out of the shadows” and publicly challenge the spying charges against him and his wife, who now fear for their lives more than three weeks into the Iran war. Craig Foreman and his wife Lindsay …
(Corrects al-Maabilahin to al-Maawil in paragraph 3) DUBAI, March 23 (Reuters) – At least five people have died in Oman over the past 24 hours after vehicles were swept away by floodwaters, authorities said on Monday. Oman’s Civil Defence and Ambulance Authority said seven people were rescued after a vehicle carrying 10 people was swept …
TAIPEI, March 23 (Reuters) – Improving ties with Beijing does not require being anti-U.S., while Taiwan’s survival depends on stable relations with China, the leader of Taiwan’s largest opposition party said on Monday. Former lawmaker Cheng Li-wun won election as chair of the Kuomintang (KMT) in October and has signalled a swing towards even closer …
JERUSALEM, March 23 (Reuters) – An Israeli civilian killed on Sunday on the Lebanese border dies as a result of friendly fire and not from a rocket attack from Hezbollah, the Israeli military said on Monday. Initial findings indicate that the man, Ofer Moskowitz, was killed by artillery fire that was carried out to assist …
(Changes media identifier) PARIS, March 23 (Reuters) – Former French Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin died at age 88, broadcaster BFM reported. Jospin was head of government under the centre-right President Jacques Chirac from 1997 to 2002 during cohabitation, a term used in France when the president and the prime minister come from opposing camps. …
DUBAI, March 23 (Reuters) – An attack on Iran’s southern coast and islands will lead to Gulf routes being cut with the laying of sea mines, the country’s Defence Council said on Monday according to state media. The U.S. is considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran’s Kharg Island, the country’s main oil export hub, …
March 23 (Reuters) – The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet were killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport late on Sunday. Below are the details of other fatal crashes in recent years. Hundreds of people were killed in June when an Air …