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Gold Coast, Australia — The Iranian women’s soccer team left Australia minus seven of its members who were granted asylum, after tearful protests of their departure at Sydney Airport and frantic final efforts inside the terminal by Australian officials who sought to ensure the women understood they were being offered asylum. As the team’s flight …
Latino voters helped propel record turnout in last week’s Texas primaries — with most voting in the Democratic contest — a trend Democrats are watching closely as they try to reclaim ground with the group and pull off an upset win in the red-leaning state’s Senate contest. Over 4.4 million ballots were cast in last …
TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast Wednesday as the government pushes for more use of atomic energy. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged parts of the region, caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a …
MOSCOW, March 11 (Reuters) – Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces shot down two British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles over the past 24 hours, according to the RIA news agency. Earlier Ukraine said it had used Storm Shadow missiles to strike a key plant producing missile components in the Russian city of Bryansk …
BUCHAREST, March 11 (Reuters) – Romanian President Nicusor Dan has convened the EU and NATO nation’s top defence council on Wednesday to…
The British government is releasing a first batch of documents on Peter Mandelson’s appointment as U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Mandelson was fired from his ambassador’s job and is being investigated by police for possible misconduct tied to his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a political storm over his …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The war on Iran, for all its complexity and global effects, boils down to a single question: Who can take the pain the longest? A surge in oil prices points to what may be Iran’s most effective weapon and the United States’ biggest vulnerability in continuing the campaign: Damaging …
Lakers superstar Luka Doncic says he has separated from the mother of his two young daughters and is in a custody dispute
SYDNEY, March 11 (Reuters) – Australia has closed its embassies in Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv as well as its consulate in Dubai, the foreign…
Swiss police are investigating whether a deadly bus fire in Kerzers was set on purpose