Fri 06 March 2026: The UN refugee agency said Thursday that intensifying hostilities across the Middle East have triggered “significant population movement,” as more than 330,000 people have been forcibly displaced, mostly within their own countries. The UNHCR noted that clashes along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan have forced thousands of families to flee. […]
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Fri 06 March 2026: Evidence assembled by The New York Times suggests a strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab were carried out by the US. The newspaper reports that satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos indicate the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike […]
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Fri 06 March 2026: Israel’s Civil Administration has cancelled Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, the latest in a series of Israeli restrictions imposed at Islam’s third-holiest site since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Civil Administration Chief Brigadier General Hisham Ibrahim said on Thursday via the Israeli […]
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Fri 06 March 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ Ukraine’s ambassador to SA refuses to mourn Khamenei: Ambassador Olexander Scherba posted on X that “weirdly” the Iranian embassy had informed Ukrainian diplomats that it was opening a book of condolences (to be signed) in memory of Khamenei and the military leadership of […]
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The Israel-US war on Iran has rapidly spilt into neighbouring Gulf nations, all of which host American military bases. / TRT World Thu 05 March 2026: Tehran has widened the scope of its retaliation, with the bulk of its fury directed at targets in the Arab countries of the region. Iran has launched far more […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: To carry out strikes on 1,000 targets on the first day of its assault on Iran, the US military relied on the most sophisticated artificial intelligence system it has deployed in combat to date, technology that the Pentagon may find difficult to abandon even as it ends its relationship with the […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Russia and China have condemned the US-Israeli attack on Iran but stopped short of offering military support. Russia and China, Tehran’s two most powerful diplomatic partners, have labelled the US-Israeli war on Iran that has killed more than 1,000 people a clear violation of international law. President Vladimir Putin called the assassination […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he will instruct the government to consider halting deliveries of Russian energy resources to Europe and redirecting them to Asia. Speaking in an interview with Russian broadcaster VGTRK in Moscow, he emphasized that Europe itself plans to completely refuse Russian energy resources. “They are […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Voting continued in Nepal on Thursday to elect 275 members of the lower House of parliament, after youth-led protests ousted the government of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli six months ago. According to data shared by the Election Commission, the voter turnout from 7 am to 1 pm local time was […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ South Africans warned to evacuate countries: Dirco has warned South Africans in the Middle East to take “immediate advantage” of the limited commercial flights available out of the region, as heavy attacks are expected to continue in the coming days in the UAE, […]
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