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Tucker Carlson | Voice of America

The American conservative commentator, who says his worldview is shaped by his Christian faith, has emerged as one of the most influential critics of U.S. interventionist foreign policy, Washington’s support for Tel Aviv, and, more specifically, Israel’s war in Palestine and the ongoing U.S.-Israel attack on Iran from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/CcPnFOr

HDFC Bank fires 3 senior officials for gaps in client onboarding at its DIFC branch

“Appropriate remedial actions have been taken in line with internal policies. Personnel changes have been undertaken along with appropriate action as per the bank’s conduct regulation,” the bank statement said from Industry News, Company News, Manufacturing News, Service Sector | The Hindu https://ift.tt/t2nGLzH

Iranian missile causes ‘extensive damage’ at Qatar’s Ras Laffan

Qatar condemned in a statement the attack saying that it represents a “direct ​threat” to its ‌national security from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/yBDkTLF

UK approves US use of British bases to strike Iran missile sites targeting ships

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said this week Britain would not be drawn into a war over Iran from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/iuWOXEy

New Jersey sues Trump administration over proposed ICE facility

The move follows Maryland, which ⁠sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last month to stop construction of a similar facility in ‌the State from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/WLMtx3r

U.S. strike against alleged drug smugglers in eastern Pacific kills two, Coast Guard says

The survivor and remains ‌were transferred to ​the Costa Rican Coast Guard, ⁠a Coast Guard ⁠spokesperson said from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/pMaY8Zi

U.S. approves over $16 billion in arms sales to Gulf states hit by Iran war

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has "determined and provided detailed justification that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale" of the military equipment, thereby waiving the requirement that Congress give its approval from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ySn86oY

Netanyahu claims Iran no longer has uranium enrichment capacity

Mr. Netanyahu did not provide evidence for his claim that Iran no longer had ​the capacity to enrich ‌uranium from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/y25YlnW

The opportunity in Cameroon to rebalance the WTO

The World Trade Organization’s Ministerial Conference must ensure that trade is governed by rules rather than coercion from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/KWtq3js

HDFC Bank chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigns on ethical ground

Keki Mistry appointed as interim part time Chairman for three months from Industry News, Company News, Manufacturing News, Service Sector | The Hindu https://ift.tt/bpJ2fvH

Cuba restores power to most of country after another blackout

The government did not specify what caused the latest of Cuba’s frequent power outages, but said that as of March 17 morning two-thirds of the country had electricity again from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/tVgExs8

Union Govt writes to States, UTs for speedily approving pending, new gas pipeline projects

This forms part of the government’s objective to push for piped natural gas as it seeks to ease pressure on LPG   from Industry News, Company News, Manufacturing News, Service Sector | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JBlIdno

Trump upset as U.S. partners reject call for Hormuz warship escorts

A number of U.S. partners, including Germany, Spain and Italy, said they had no immediate plans to ‌send ships to help reopen the strategic waterway, which Iran has effectively shut with drones and naval mines from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/nVajRtK

Drone attack hits hotel in Baghdad, no injuries reported

Security sources also ​earlier said two Katyusha rockets ⁠were fired at the ⁠U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/dnBrSXh

Number of U.S. troops wounded in war against Iran rises to about 200

In a statement, the U.S. military’s ​Central Command ‌said the vast majority suffered minor injuries and 180 troops had already returned to duty from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/aku05Ch

Iran, at UN, insists will not submit to ‘lawless aggression’

"The most urgent and fundamental human rights issue concerning Iran is the imminent threat to the lives of 90 million people whose lives are in immediate and grave danger under the shadow of reckless military aggression," said Ali Bahreini, Iran's ambassador to the UN in Geneva. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/tOCd0M6

Israeli military claims brother of man who attacked Michigan synagogue was Hezbollah commander

The FBI's Detroit office, which is investigating the attack, declined to comment on the claims by Israel's military about Ibrahim Ghazali from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/FPK1khw

U.S. attitude to the Kurdish question reflects colonial mindset, says Nilufer Koc

Spokesperson of Kurdistan National Congress says the U.S. made the proposal about Kurdish fighters without broader consultation with the Kurds from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/QHc37OC

Iran Guards say targeted U.S. forces at Saudi base with missiles

The Guards said the base was being used to equip "F-35 and F-16 fighter jets and is the storage place for fuel tankers" from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/cw2JfYj

Lindsey Graham | Trump’s whisperer of war

The South Carolina Senator, one of the strongest supporters of Trump’s wars, says the U.S. is ‘in a religious war and I unapologetically stand with Israel’ from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/MNDhqLP

West Asia conflict: Two Indians killed in attack in Oman’s Sohar

Additional Secretary (Gulf) said that of the 10 injured, five had been discharged; first deaths reported on land in the sultanate during the ongoing war from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/LbJiDoQ

U.S. offers $10 million reward for information on Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, senior officials

In addition to the supreme leader, the U.S. is seeking information about Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and two officials in Khamenei’s ‌office from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6Ml0KOf

Futuristic mindfulness city fuels Bhutan’s ‘fly east’ via Assam

Drukair says the commencement of Paro-Singapore flight via Guwahati makes commercial sense because of altitude-dictated weight restrictions that force aeroplanes to take off from or land at Paro Airport with less fuel from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/93uJmKw

Given constraints in fuel availability plants running at a rationalised capacity: Jindal Stainless

Unlike conventional steel industry, which largely utilises blast furnace and coke oven gases as energy sources, the stainless steel industry follows the scrap-based production route where such gases are not generated internally from Industry News, Company News, Manufacturing News, Service Sector | The Hindu https://ift.tt/rpOnzH5

Iran not going to close Strait of Hormuz, Tehran’s UN Envoy says

Ships must coordinate with Iran’s navy to pass ​through the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s foreign ‌ministry spokesperson said from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/s2N1mSW

Netanyahu says Israel 'crushing' Iran and Hezbollah; issues veiled threat to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei

"I have added a third objective, which is to create, for the Iranian people, the conditions to bring down this regime," Mr. Netanyahu said from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/2s9BQuU

U.S. Navy could escort vessels in Strait of Hormuz with international coalition, Bessent says

U.S. Treasury Secretary said “absolutely not” ​when ⁠asked whether there was a ‌price ‌that ⁠could cause ⁠him to confront President Donald Trump ​and say ‌the Iran war was no longer affordable from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Loi0OXF

Is India tailing the U.S. in its West Asia policy?

from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/SgACWNH

Reliance remains mum even as Trump announces ‘historic’ $300 billion U.S. refinery deal

The company did not make any announcement neither informed anything to stock exchanges, fuelling speculations on the veracity of U.S. President Trump’s claims from Industry News, Company News, Manufacturing News, Service Sector | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Opijrsg

U.S. forces have knocked out 28 Iranian mine-laying ships: Trump

U.S. military gave a figure of 16 mine-laying boats destroyed on Tuesday (March 10, 2026) from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/3Y6O1Va

Youth-backed RSP win signals Nepal’s new political era

The election result signals Nepal’s democratic evolution and India needs to play a supportive role from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6MyERSu

U.S. urges Israel to stop attacks on Iran energy sites: report

The Trump administration cited three reasons, ‌including a goal to ​cooperate with Iran’s oil sector after ⁠the war, according to the report from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/VoZkG7L

About 140 U.S. service members wounded since start of Israel-Iran war: Pentagon

The new figure is the first insight into the broader toll of injuries that have been sustained by U.S. troops in the wake of a barrage of retaliatory rocket and drone strikes from Iran from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/e2OCfjg

India slams Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghanistan during Ramzan

India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Harish Parvathaneni reiterated New Delhi's support for the UN Secretary-General's call for compliance with international law, including international humanitarian law, and for ensuring protection of civilians from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/P3rUJpl

How the war in Iran threatens to spill over

History demonstrates that democracy, human rights and the rule of law have not yet been introduced into a region by the business end of a cruise missile from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/2Ndl0gu

PM Modi speaks to Nepal leaders Rabi Lamichhane, Balendra Shah

The PM congratulated the Rastriya Swatantra Party leaders on their election victory and conveyed India's commitment to work with them for mutual prosperity, progress and well-being of the two countries from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/TWHGJQM

New York City police identify device outside Zohran Mamdani's home as explosive

No immediate indication the incident was related to the U.S. attack on Iran; New York police working with the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ZCqpH42

Who is Mojtaba Khamenei? Iran’s new Supreme Leader set to suceed his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The selection is historic as Iran’s establishment has long rejected the idea of hereditary succession from father to son from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/iGAQwzF

Generational shift: On the Nepal election, the results

Nepal’s voters upend old political order as RSP faces governance test from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/NYoHLSv

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to carry on war, 'eradicate Iranian regime'

Israel and the United States, meanwhile, pounded Iran again, with one air strike setting a Tehran airport ablaze and another hitting an oil depot, even as Tehran continued to retaliate from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/12xtyST

Rastriya Swatantra Party – the bell strikes

The party that campaigned on anti-corruption, anti-establishment platforms has emerged as the winner of Nepal’s first post-protest election from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/0jMxOmw

Pezeshkian says Iran will halt strikes on neighbours; Trump vows to hit harder

The Iranian President says it will only target neighbours if attacks originate from their territory; responding to the U.S. President’s demand for “unconditional surrender”, Mr. Pezeshkian says Iran’s enemies will take this dream “to their grave” from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ns0Qx8d

Israel-Iran war LIVE: Russia reportedly providing Iran with info to strike U.S. military; Israel continues to bomb Lebanon

Iran launched more retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries on the seventh day of the war from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7M5TRSc

Ghana peacekeeping battalion hit by missile attacks in Lebanon, Ghana army says

In addition to ​the two critically injured soldiers, Ghana’s armed forces ⁠said that another soldier “has ⁠been traumatised” while the officers’ mess facility ‌was hit and burned down from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/4cnV2tg

Iran Guards say targeted U.S. base in UAE over school strike in Minab

The New York Times newspaper reported on March 5, that U.S. military statements indicating forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where a Revolutionary Guards' base is located, "suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike" from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6NIwRbO

Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Iran strike U.S. military, AP sources say

“We are in dialogue with the Iranian side, with representatives of the Iranian leadership, and will certainly continue this dialogue,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on March 6 from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Dv1lyY4

U.S. House rejects war powers resolution, backs Trump on Iran war

The vote was 219 to 212, largely along party lines, in the House, where Mr. Trump’s fellow Republicans ‌control a narrow majority of seats; two Republicans voted in favor of the resolution and four Democrats voted against it from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wOERF9d

West Asia on fire: On the Israeli-American war against Iran

India should oppose the U.S.’s attempt to widen the war to the Indian Ocean from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/OiPpHE3

Twenty-four U.S. states announce lawsuit to stop Trump’s latest global tariffs

The states are asking the court to issue an ⁠order that would block the new tariffs and order any tariff payments already made under Section 122 authority to be refunded from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/dDPVWEt

Sea is higher than we thought, millions more at risk: study

Researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and hazard assessments, calculating that about 90% of them underestimated baseline coastal water heights by an average of 30 cm, according to a study in the journal Nature from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/edntkpw

Hezbollah says will confront Israel-U.S. ‘aggression’, will not surrender

"We are facing aggression... our choice is to confront it until the ultimate sacrifice, and we will not surrender," said Hezbollah from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/P2cr4a7

Spain denies U.S. claim of military cooperation on Iran as rift deepens

"We will not be complicit in something that is harmful to the world and contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of retaliation," Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after Trump had lashed out at Sanchez's government, calling Spain a "terrible" ally from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/NqG6dC8

Fire near U.S. consulate in Dubai after drone attack: govt statement

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the drone strike adjacent to the U.S. consulate in Dubai and said all personnel were safe from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wlDygQx

Trump says Germany helping with Iran strikes, meets Merz at White House

Mr. Trump told reporters that Germany had been “helping ⁠out” by allowing U.S. forces to access certain bases, and drew a sharp contrast to the actions of two other European countries: Britain and Spain from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ldVPZ1f

NATO 'welcomes' Macron's nuclear drive

NATO’s nuclear deterrence relies on the United States, while France remains independent of the alliance’s nuclear planning group from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/bMDtSKF

Israel, the U.S. and a war to build a unipolar West Asia

This is a perilous conflict that is more about geopolitics and shaped by Tel Aviv’s own interests from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/8yWVDqx

Hezbollah condemns Lebanese govt decision to ban military activities

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said: “The Lebanese state declares its absolute and unequivocal rejection of any military or security actions launched from Lebanese territory outside the framework of its legitimate institutions from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ysL7p0A

Iran media outlets report Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran

Iranian media reported that a police station in a city on the outskirts of Tehran was also hit by strikes on March 1, killing an unspecified number of people, with others said to be trapped under debris from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/S5F9Nak

‘India stands in solidarity’: PM Modi speaks to UAE President, condemns attacks on Gulf nation

PM Modi also thanked the UAE President for taking care of the Indian community living in the Gulf nation, and said New Delhi supports de-escalation, regional peace, security and stability from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Zbwvtje