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South Asia / Modi, Putin agree to strengthen ties
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Iran, Saudi Arabia discuss regional ‘insecurity’ as Yemen fighting flares
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Modi, Putin hold talks in New Delhi on trade, defence
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One month into Iran war, only hard choices for Trump
Despite a flurry of diplomatic activity, Trump ends another week of the joint US-Israeli campaign struggling to contain a widening Middle East crisis as a defiant Iran maintains a chokehold on Gulf oil and gas shipments and continues missile and drone strikes across the region.
28 March 2026
US-Israel war on Iran: Latest developments
Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war
28 March 2026
Israel says Iran missile attack kills man in Tel Aviv
Israeli authorities said an Iranian missile attack killed a man in Tel Aviv on Friday, as Tehran pressed its retaliatory strikes across the region a month into the war.
28 March 2026
'Strait of Trump': US president says Iran must open key waterway
Trump, who has renamed several buildings in Washington after himself during his second term, said his comment was a "mistake" but then added that "there's no accidents with me."
28 March 2026
US lifts sanctions on Venezuela minerals sector, including gold
Besides gold and the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela also produces diamonds, bauxite and rare earths such as coltan, crucial for a range of high-tech products
28 March 2026
The rise and fall of Nepal strongman KP Sharma Oli
Oli, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), painted the polls during campaigning as a "competition between those who burn the country and those who build it".
28 March 2026
Musk joined Trump and Modi call on Iran, says New York Times
It was unclear why Musk was on the call or whether he spoke
28 March 2026
Bank of America agrees to pay $72.5 mn to settle Epstein sex-trafficking suit
Epstein committed suicide while being held at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019
28 March 2026
Rubio says Iran war to last 'weeks not months,' no US ground troops needed
Meanwhile, an Iranian attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia seriously wounded two US military personnel and injured another 10, a US official told Reuters, as drones and missiles continued to strike around the Gulf.
28 March 2026
Trump says US may not be there for NATO if needed
"Why would we be there for them if they're not there for us? They weren't there for us."
28 March 2026
Twelve US troops wounded in Iran strike on base in Saudi Arabia, US official says
The latest casualties add to the more than 300 US military service members who have been wounded since the war against Iran started on February 28
28 March 2026
Iran hardliners push for nuclear bomb
The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating US-Israeli attack is getting louder, more public and more insistent, sources in the country say.
28 March 2026
US deploys uncrewed drone boats for patrols
The United States has deployed uncrewed drone speedboats for patrols as part of its operations against Iran, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has confirmed using such vessels in an active conflict.
28 March 2026
Houthis ready to join war if needed
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, whose attacks on the Red Sea caused international shipping and trade chaos during the Gaza war,
28 March 2026
Pentagon eyes Ukraine military aid shift to ME
The Pentagon is weighing whether to redirect weapons originally meant for Ukraine to the Middle East, as the war in Iran strains supplies of some of the US military’s most critical munitions, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
28 March 2026
Teens as young as 12 to guard checkpoints in Tehran: official
Iran’s security forces are recruiting children as young as 12 to man checkpoints and perform other duti
28 March 2026
China stations jets-turned-drones at six air bases: report
China has stationed obsolete supersonic fighters converted to attack drones at six air bases close to the Taiwan Strait, according to a new report by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
28 March 2026
2 aid boats en route to Cuba missing
Mexico’s navy said on Thursday it had activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled.
28 March 2026
Trump’s name to mark US currency
US paper currency will bear President Donald Trump’s signature starting this summer, the first time a sitting president has signed American money, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
28 March 2026
‘Steer clear of US forces’
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned civilians across the Middle East yesterday to stay away from areas near US forces, in a mark of defiance after President Donald Trump claimed talks to end the month-long war were “going well”.
28 March 2026