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A stagehand checks the stage ahead of the election of the new Liberal Party leader in Ottawa on March 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Canada’s governing Liberals will announce a replacement for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday (March 9, 2025) as the country deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and as … Read more
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) Friedrich Merz and co-leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD) Lars Klingbeil after exploratory talks in Berlin, Germany March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Germany’s Friedrich Merz on Sunday (March 5, 2025) reiterated that he was open to France extending its nuclear deterrent … Read more
Thailand’s forensic police officers inspect the site of an attack that killed two defence volunteers and injured 12 others, outside the district office of Sungai Kolok in the southern Thailand province of Narathiwat on March 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Five people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in two attacks in … Read more
Firefighters battling a wildfire in Ofunato city of Iwate Prefecture. Rain appears to have halted the spread of Japan’s worst wildfire in more than half a century, officials said on March 6. File | Photo Credit: AFP Japan’s worst wildfire in more than half a century, which killed at least one person, has been brought … Read more
Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen said he had given instructions to stop supplying electricity to Gaza. File | Photo Credit: AP Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Sunday (March 9, 2025) said he had given instructions to stop supplying electricity to Gaza, a week after Israel blocked all aid into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. The … Read more
China’s military vowed to tighten its “noose” around Taiwan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s military vowed on Sunday (March 9, 2025)to tighten its “noose” around Taiwan if separatism on the island escalated, warning independence proponents to step back from the “precipice”. Beijing considers the self-ruled island of Taiwan to be part of its territory … Read more
South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Macha. File | Photo Credit: AP The United States has ordered all non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, the State Department said on Sunday (March 9, 2025), as rising tensions provoke international concern. A fragile power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President … Read more
U.S. has declined to renew a waiver that had allowed Iraq to buy electricity from Iran. File | Photo Credit: AP The United States has declined to renew a waiver that had allowed Iraq to buy electricity from Iran without running afoul of sanctions, a U.S. official said on Sunday (March 9, 2025). Also Read … Read more
Israel carried out an air strike on militants in northern Gaza. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images Israel carried out an air strike on militants in northern Gaza on Sunday (March 9, 2025), rattling an already fragile ceasefire as it prepared for fresh talks in Doha on the future of its truce with Hamas. Despite … Read more
The U.S. Secret Service shot an armed man outside the White House. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Secret Service shot an armed man outside the White House early on Sunday (March 9, 2025) after a confrontation, and the man is now in an area hospital, it said in a statement. President Donald Trump … Read more