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Palantir was an outlier in a tough week for the stock market, as the provider of software and services to the U.S. government saw its stock rally 15% following the U.S. attack on Iran.
Qatar has partially reopened its airspace days after Iranian missile and drone strikes forced the country to ground all flights as a United States-Israeli military campaign against Iran continues into its seventh day.
An Iranian Shahed exploding drone launched by Russia flies through the sky seconds before it struck buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
US President Donald Trump told CNN he is “fine” if another religious figure becomes the leader of Iran and does not care if the Islamic Republic becomes a democracy.
Iranian Kurdish dissident fighters based in northern Iraq say they are not preparing an immediate cross-border attack on Iran, but would take part in a US-led ground invasion if one were launched.
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The United States is on its way toward controlling Iranian airspace and says it expects achievable objectives to be completed in four to six weeks. Source: AAP / SATELLITE IMAGE
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.S. is imposing visa restrictions on “several senior Rwandan officials for fueling instability” in eastern Congo, the State Department said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the East African country after sanctions announced earlier this week.
El brazo de una persona fallecida sobresale de los escombros mientras los equipos de rescate y los residentes buscan el sábado 28 de febrero de 2026 entre los restos de una escuela primaria para niñas en Minab, Irán, que fue objeto de un ataque atribuido por funcionarios locales a EEUU e Israel. (Abbas Zakeri/Agenci…
Why did India's Narendra Modi travel to Israel two days before the US and Israel launched a war on Iran?
Oil shot to its highest price since 2023 after surging again because of the Iran war, and a weak update on the U.S. job market knocked stocks lower to cap Wall Street’s worst week since October.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday Cuba was next on his agenda after Iran, predicting that the communist-run island, crippled by a US energy blockade, is "gonna fall pretty soon."
LONDON — Never in the field of human conflict has a British prime minister done so much to look as small as Keir Starmer does now.
A massive Israeli strike last weekend, reportedly aided by US intelligence tracking, flattened the compound housing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many of his closest aides.
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The United States and Israel have attacked Iran at a pace that far surpasses other recent conflicts, research group Airwars says, as the US and Israeli governments have pledged to press on with their deadly bombardment.
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The International Energy Agency said the Israeli-US war on Iran has halted the country’s gas exports, largely to Asian markets, raising concerns about global energy supplies, the Associated Press reported.
Australia is 12,000 kilometres away, but the ripples of the conflict in the Middle East could reverberate all the way into our power bills.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “with his impeccable timing,” has transformed into “more of an anti-Israel zealot,” snarks Commentary’s Seth Mandel, “mocking Israel’s participation in the regime-change mission in Iran,” even as “Israel’s participation in the conflict saves American lives.”
In a strange way, markets could come to be a surrogate institutional check on a country that otherwise doesn’t know restraint. The missiles are again flying and a thick fog of war has descended over the Middle East. US President Donald Trump has said it might take four to five weeks or longer to achieve America’s ob…
WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday downplayed a report that Russia is providing Iran with targeting information about US forces in the Middle East.
Two Iranian sailors, carrying green bags, who were rescued from IRIS Dena warship by Sri Lanka’s navy are escorted to a Judicial Medical Officer from the National Hospital, in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Gulf countries are shutting down oil and gas production as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but it's not just their energy infrastructure that is currently held hostage to Iran’s retaliatory missiles and drones: food and water are, too.
US President Donald Trump said he is not worried about rising petrol prices in the United States during the ongoing conflict involving Iran, saying the military campaign remains his main focus, according to Reuters.
El presidente ruso Vladímir Putin asiste a una reunión con el gobernador de la región de Nizhni Nóvgorod, Gleb Nikitin, en el Kremlin, Rusia, el viernes 6 de marzo de 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo vía AP)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country is ready for a ground invasion by American troops as the war launched by the United States and Israel has quickly spread across the region. He also refused any negotiations with the U.S. and said that Iran had not asked for a ceasefire.
Iranian officials have rejected Donald Trump’s push to be involved in the selection of the country’s next leader, insisting that only Iranians can decide the future of their country.
US oil prices surged to $90 a barrel on Friday after President Trump demanded unconditional surrender from Iran – fueling fears of a lasting conflict that Qatar’s energy minister warned could “bring down the economies of the world.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin at the Kremlin, in , Russia, Friday, March 6, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
View image in fullscreenTehran, IranA man is helped in the aftermath of an airstrike that caused major damage to the area around Ferdowsi Square in Tehran. Israel and the US launched a war on Iran this week, unleashing waves of air attacks across the country in an attempt to bring about regime change and plunging th…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Washington is considering potential candidates to lead Iran, a day after President Donald Trump said the US must be involved in choosing the country’s next leader.
The Trump administration on Friday announced a $20 billion reinsurance program for oil tankers and other maritime traffic in an effort to get vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
In refusing to sing the national anthem these athletes have placed themselves in grave danger while Gianni Infantino sides with the American war machine
Kalshi prediction market was sued for a failure to pay out $54 million to people who bet that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office before March 1, 2026, according to a class action lawsuit filed on Thursday.
Varias personas salen de la terminal del Aeropuerto Internacional John F. Kennedy en Nueva York al llegar de Amán, Jordania, el jueves 5 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Yuki Iwamura)
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Un miembro del Partido por la Libertad del Kurdistán (PAK) monta guardia en Irbil, Irak, el jueves 5 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Rashid Yahya)
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Donald Trump’s war on Iran marks the US president’s final break with his ‘America First’ allies and embrace of interventionism. It’s a decision that will haunt whoever inherits the leadership of his divided movement.
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez, right, delivers joint remarks with U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Germany has withdrawn additional Bundeswehr troops from the Middle East as tensions escalate on the seventh day of the Israeli-US war on Iran, a military spokesperson said.
CNN was accused of pushing out “pro-Iran regime propaganda” by the Trump administration Thursday after a reporter for the network said it appeared daily life was continuing despite the ongoing war.
A Dept. of Defense map entitled, Operation EPIC FURY Timeline - First 100 Hours, is displayed during a news conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, at the Pentagon, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Konstantin Toropin)
WASHINGTON — The United States insists it attacked Iran to curb "direct threats" from the Islamic republic, but legal experts say the dangers cited by Washington do not justify war under international law.
At least two people were killed in an Israeli-US strike on a residential building in the Iranian city of Qom, according to Tasnim news agency.
Calls are growing for an independent investigation into an attack on a girls’ school in southern Iran that killed 165 young pupils this week, with United Nations experts denouncing the deadly bombing as “a grave assault on children”.