Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israel has attacked a building in Beshoura, located in the centre of Beirut, with an explosion and smoke rising in the area shortly after Israel issued a threat to evacuate the site. The attack was part of a deadly wave of Israeli attacks across Lebanon that killed at…
Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said at least 17 people were killed and 123 were injured in attacks on a town on Sudan’s border with Chad. Cairo– A medical group reported that 17 people died and many others were injured in the latest heavy fighting between the warring parties in Sudan. Doctors Without Borders, also…
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Bayern Munich could hand 16-year-old goalkeeper Leonard Prescott his first-team debut in the Champions League on Wednesday. The German giants have three goalkeepers struggling with injuries and Prescott will play in the second leg of their last 16 tie against Atalanta if Jonas Erbig fails to recover from injury, head coach Vincent Kompany said. Arbig…
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Donald Trump’s latest public appearance reveals a lot. Here are four: Inconsistency on discussions with Iranians The US president has said several times in recent hours that negotiations with the Iranians are ongoing. “They want to make a deal,” he said Sunday night on the plane back to Washington, D.C. “They want to make a…
Read for 3 minutes Updated: March 17, 2026, 09:15 PM IST Joseph Kent, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first and highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to resign during the ongoing war in Iran. In his resignation letter shared on Twitter, Kent said he could not support the…
