MADRID, March 17 (Reuters) – The upcoming report by Spain’s antitrust and energy watchdog CNMC on the massive blackout that hit the Iberian Peninsula last year will not assign blame for the outage, the watchdog’s chief said on Tuesday. Spain and Portugal’s widespread blackout on April 28 left large swathes of the two countries in …
NEW YORK (AP) — Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this year’s winners of prizes handed out by the J. Anthony Lukas Project, named for the late author and investigative journalist. The winners were announced Tuesday by the project’s administrators, the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism …
LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday. No cause of death was given. Deighton’s first novel, “The IPCRESS File,” helped set the tone of cool and gritty 1960s thrillers …
MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) – Russia’s Siberian Novosibirsk region has declared a state of emergency to tackle a cattle disease outbreak after weeks of forced removals for culling triggered protests by small farmers who say the measures threatened their livelihoods. State news agency TASS quoted the region’s agriculture minister, Andrei Shindelov, as saying the emergency …
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief’s office expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing” in a new report on Tuesday, saying that Israel has accelerated the expansion of settlements in large parts of the occupied West Bank and the forced displacement of more than 36,000 Palestinians. The report from the office of Volker Türk, …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won’t pass — an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter registration rules as President Donald Trump pressures Congress to act before November’s midterm elections. The …
LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Gerry Adams, one of Northern Ireland’s best-known political figures, once again denied ever being a member of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army as he gave evidence on Tuesday at London’s High Court. The former leader of Sinn Fein, formerly the IRA’s political wing and now the largest party in the …
GENEVA, March 17 (Reuters) – Tens of millions more people will face acute hunger if the Iran war continues through to June, according to analysis from the World Food Programme released on Tuesday. An extra 45 million are projected to be pushed into acute hunger because of rises in food, oil and shipping costs, pushing …
NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) – India has had no discussions with Iran over the exchange of three vessels, a spokesperson for India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Reuters reported on Monday, citing sources, that Iran had asked for the return of three seized tankers in exchange for India asking for India-flagged or India-bound vessels’ …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, March 17, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Heart experts are calling for a full-court press against cholesterol, including lifelong screening and treatment, a set of new guidelines says. Blood testing for cholesterol should start in childhood, and take place at least every five years to track each person’s heart health risk, …