March2025

Hamas said it remained open to negotiations while calling for pressure on Israel Wednesday to implement a Gaza truce after its deadliest bombing since the fragile ceasefire began in January. Israel carried out fresh air strikes...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban’s oppression of women. Since their return to power in 2021, the Taliban...

A Syria war monitor said Israeli jets struck a military site in central Syria on Tuesday, the latest such attack in recent days. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “Israeli air strikes targeted...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that massive overnight strikes on Gaza were “only the beginning” and that future negotiations with Hamas “will take place only under fire”. The strikes, by far the largest...

The last set of documents pertaining to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which continues to inspire conspiracy theories over 60 years after his passing, was made public by the US National Archives on Tuesday. The action...

Mekhri feels “a sense of freedom and self-confidence” when she’s behind the wheel of a car — despite being forced to drive illegally because of an unwritten rule in Turkmenistan preventing women getting a licence. In...

Like something from the science fiction film “Dune”, the “world’s biggest mining dredger” has been swallowing acre after acre of the fertile coastal strip where most of Senegal’s vegetables are grown. The jagged 23-kilometre-long (14-mile) scar...

Citing the need for increased cybersecurity capabilities as artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into technology infrastructure, Google announced on Tuesday that it will pay $32 billion to purchase cloud security platform Wiz. With the all-cash transaction,...

Asian markets were mixed and gold hit another record high Wednesday as trade war worries cast a shadow and geopolitical concerns returned to the fore. The tepid start to the day followed tech-led losses on Wall...

As geopolitical fears resurfaced and trade war worries cast a shadow, Asian markets were mixed as gold reached yet another record high on Wednesday. The sluggish start to the day came after tech-led losses on Wall...