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Norway to add more than $11bn to defence budget over 10 years 

27 March 2026

News|Business and Economy Norway is set to raise defence spending by 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product to compen...

Nixon to Trump: Pakistan’s long record as backchannel between rival powers 

27 March 2026

Islamabad, Pakistan – In the middle of 1971, at the height of the Cold War, a Pakistani government plane carrying US ...

Qatari PM and US officials discuss strategic ties amid Iran war 

27 March 2026

Qatar’s prime minister has held talks with senior US officials in Washington, DC, amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on I...

‘We will no longer stand by’: Austria plans social media ban for under-14s 

27 March 2026

Austria plans to ban children under 14 from using social media, with an official saying certain online sites are addicti...

Ukraine announces ‘mutually beneficial’ defence deal with Saudi Arabia 

27 March 2026

Ukraine says it has signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia as Gulf countries continue to come under Iranian attack...

Nepal’s youngest premier sworn in after releasing new rap song about unity 

27 March 2026

Balendra Shah, Nepal’s youngest prime minister, has been sworn in after his party’s landslide election victory follo...

Yemenis fear economic consequences of being dragged into US-Iran conflict 

27 March 2026

Sanaa, Yemen – Iran is facing the full might of the United States and Israel, and is fighting back, using the cards at...

India lowers fuel taxes, says rumours of lockdown ‘completely false’ 

27 March 2026

News|US-Israel war on Iran India has lowered fuel taxes in a bid to protect consumers from rising global energy prices �...

Wildlife killed, reefs damaged in ‘active’ Gulf of Mexico oil spill 

27 March 2026

Oil spilling from an unidentified vessel and two “natural” sources in the Gulf of Mexico has spread to seven nature ...

‘My heart burns with pain’: Iranian mother tells UN of Minab school attack 

27 March 2026

Mohaddeseh Fallahat remembers combing her children’s hair on the morning of February 28, then tying their shoes and li...