Tue 11 March 2025: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs. According to the Philippine government, Duterte was taken into custody at the airport in the capital after returning from a trip […]
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Tue 11 March 2025: US and Ukrainian delegations began talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Tuesday to discuss prospects for a possible peace deal with Russia. According to the Saudi television channel Al Arabiya, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha attended the talks, in the presence of […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has followed through with his promise and slapped a 25 percent surcharge on electricity the province provides to 1.5 million American homes. The surcharge imposed on Monday is a retaliatory measure for US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and will affect New York State, Minnesota and Michigan. The […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: The Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast, has signed a deal agreeing to integrate into Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday. The deal, which included a complete cessation of hostilities, was signed by interim Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and the […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has followed through with his promise and slapped a 25 percent surcharge on electricity the province provides to 1.5 million American homes. The surcharge imposed on Monday is a retaliatory measure for US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and will affect New York State, Minnesota and Michigan. The […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: Hours after a series of outages that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk claimed in a post on Monday. “Either […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: Syria’s government has ended a security operation in the country’s western coastal region, home to loyalists of former leader Bashar al-Assad, the Ministry of Defence in Damascus reported. Spokesperson Hassan Abdul Ghani made the announcement on Monday, saying in a statement on X that security threats had been neutralised in Latakia and Tartous […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: Elon Musk has accused a handful of Democratic billionaire backers, including George Soros and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, of funding the protests against his electric car company Tesla, claiming they are behind the disruptive demonstrations. “An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: The M23 armed group has pushed deeper into the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich region after capturing the key cities of Goma and Bukavu – the capitals of North and South Kivu provinces, respectively – in recent weeks. Security sources have told Al Jazeera that the Rwanda-backed rebels had entered Nyabiondo […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz informed Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani in a phone call Sunday that Washington has decided to end a crucial sanctions waiver allowing Iraq to purchase gas and electricity from Iran. Waltz described the decision as part of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy aimed […]
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