Smoke rises after a reported strike on Shahran fuel tanks in Tehran. Majid Asgaripour/WANA/ File Photo |
- Following a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump says the US may ease oil sanctions on "some countries" to tackle the shortage triggered by the Iran war. Jarrett Renshaw tells the Reuters World News podcast what options Trump has for managing the price at the pump.
- Explosive drone strikes by Haitian security forces targeting gangs have killed over 1,200 people, including 43 adult civilians and 17 children, Human Rights Watch said in a report.
- Cuba is suffering its worst economic crisis in decades under a US oil blockade, but residents of the neighborhoods where anti-government protests once burned hottest say they won't rise up again because the last time, their neighbors got 15 to 20 years in prison.
- Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso looks set to extend his decades-long rule when his country goes to the polls this weekend, even as his advanced age and a term limit fuel speculation about who will eventually succeed him.
- North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said US-South Korea military drills that began this week were a "provocative and aggressive war rehearsal" that would harm regional stability, state media KCNA reported.
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- China roared into 2026 with exports far outstripping forecasts, fueled by red-hot electronics demand, putting the economy on track to top last year's record $1.2 trillion trade surplus - barring a wider energy and shipping shock from the war in Iran.
- The year since Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariff war has produced many surprises. In this episode of the The Big View podcast, Peter Thal Larsen and IMD's Simon Evenett discuss why forecasts fizzled, how China levies fell to 26%, and why a larger jolt looms.
- Oil prices plummeted 7% after soaring to a more than three-year high in the previous session as Trump predicted the war in the Middle East could end soon.
- Australia's Qantas Airways and Air New Zealand said they are hiking fares due to the Middle East conflict, underscoring how global airlines are struggling to cope with the sudden and soaring costs of jet fuel.
- Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is leaning toward listing its shares on the Nasdaq for what could rank as the biggest initial public offering of all time, according to four people familiar with the company's thinking. Read our exclusive.
- Chocolate sales are rising faster among US users of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs than in the rest of the population, Swiss chocolatier Lindt said.
- Anthropic filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab's high-stakes battle with the US military.
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Voices at the Iran-Turkey mountain crossing |
Sisters Shaylin and Celine Azizour pose for a portrait after crossing from Iran into Turkey in Van province, March 6, 2026. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya |
At a remote mountain pass in eastern Turkey, travelers from Iran step across the threshold with a mix of fear, exhaustion and relief - arriving after a week marked by war, long journeys, communications blackouts and borrowed phones. Snow-covered hills surround the Iranian side of the frontier at the Kapikoy border gate in Turkey's Van province, where hundreds have crossed in recent days. There is now a steady flow in both directions as the US-Israeli war with Iran expands across the region. |
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A baby Japanese macaque named Punch sits next to a stuffed orangutan at Ichikawa City Zoo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon |
Punch the baby snow monkey and his stuffed orangutan have captured hearts around the world, spawned memes and even won over the White House with their charm. But in the wild, his fellow Japanese macaques often have a starkly different image: pests to be shooed away or even eliminated to prevent economic damage to farmers. |
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