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US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping last met in October in South Korea

Highly anticipated state visit

Trump, Xi prepare to meet amid Iran war, uncertain goals

US director Steven Spielberg said he had believed since childhood that humanity was not alone in the universe

Must be preserved

Spielberg defends ballet, opera after Chalamet snub

Iran's Kharg Island, which hosts the country’s main crude export terminal and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of its oil shipments to the world, about 30 kilometres south of the mainland

Lever 'must be used'

Kharg Island bombed, Trump says US to escort ships through Hormuz soon

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified at trial that he didn't believe the Meta-owned social network was clinically addictive

Meta and YouTube accused

Jurors mull evidence in social media addiction trial

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spent part of a news conference on US military operations against Tehran criticizing the media and CNN in particular

Urging for 'actual patriotic press'

Trump administration lashes out at CNN over Iran war

Notorious Latin American narco trafficker Marset has finally been arrested in Bolivia after eluding police for years

US most-wanted list

Top narco trafficker Marset handed to US after Bolivia arrest

US President Donald Trump said he had bought shoes for several cabinet members

Favourite brand

Trump 'has fun' buying shoes for cabinet members

Satellite dishes on a balcony in Tehran. The authorities have often cracked down on their use

'Deliberate shutdown' by government

How Iranians are communicating through internet blackout

Trump thanked Richard Grenell for his 'outstanding' work at the Kennedy Center

Trump replaces head of troubled Kennedy Center

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and two of his colleagues demanded testimony from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Amid Iran conflict

Democrats accuse Trump of aiding Russia with sanctions relief

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said the investigation into building cost overruns was meant to intimidate the independent central bank

'A mountain of evidence'

US federal judge quashes subpoenas in Fed chair investigation

In remarks broadcast on national television, President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed that Havana was negotiating with Washington

Amid regime change talk

Cuba releases prisoners, confirms talks with US

Prices have soared at the pumps in the UK amid the war in Iran

UK govt warns petrol retailers against 'unfair practices' during Iran war

The image is believed to be the first known photograph of the two men with Epstein

UK's Andrew and Mandelson pictured in bathrobes with Epstein

Explosions were seen in Tehran during airstrikes on an oil refinery in the capital

Energy infrastructure

War has halted Gulf oil flow -- and restarting it won't be easy

Iranian sailors talk to a hospital staffer at the Karapitiya hospital in the southern city of Galle on March 5

Frigate sunk by US submarine

Sri Lanka repatriates remains of 84 Iranians killed in US attack

Porcine violation

Police chase boar living high on the hog in Berlin mall

Mojtaba Khamenei has taken on his father's post

Strikes on 28 February

Which Khamenei family members were killed at start of war?

People wait in line at a TSA security checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas on March 10, 2026

Congressional standoff

Airport workers miss pay as US government shutdown hits one month

US President Donald Trump said he expected Iran's people to rise up and replace its government

'We're going to be hitting them very hard'

Trump vows intense strikes as Iran war heads into third week

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said the government had renegotiated a string of contracts -– mainly with foreign firms -- in key sectors including mining

Senegal to take back assets of phosphate giant ICS

Jordan Bardella, who might run for president next year, shows up to support his far-right party's candidate in the southern city of Perpignan on February 28

What you need to know

France to elect mayors in run-up to key presidential vote

A 41-year-old man was killed after ramming his pickup truck into a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan

'Bang, bang, bang': How US synagogue attack unfolded from inside

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell 9.7 points in January from December, to 84.5

Iran war fallout

US economic growth sharply lower than estimated in fourth quarter

German businesses are still pessimistic about the economy's prospects, according to a survey

Surging power costs

Mideast war plunges Germany's energy-hungry industry into crisis

German Ambassador to Ivory Coast Matthias Veltin (C) was among those at the ceremony

'Never forget': Ivory Coast commemorates 2016 jihadist attack on resort

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee on Friday

Expected to hold press conference

Macron pledges no 'respite' for Russia despite Mideast war

Dubai's tourism sector has taken a heavy hit since the start of the war

Dubai's low-paid workers on edge as Mideast war hits tourism

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